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Picks and Pans Review: The First Power
This supernatural thriller shares a blood type—copious—with last year's wretched and very similar Shocker. To praise it with faint damns, however, The First Power is considerably less obnoxious—not quite so gratuitously gory nor obscene.
Phillips plays a homicide detective tracking a serial killer in Los Angeles. He is not too convincing, but he does have a boyish appeal, and Tracy Griffith makes all she can of her role as a psychic who helps Phillips track the killer. (Griffith was "Babe" in The Good Mother and appeared with half-sister Melanie in Fear City.) Elizabeth (Critical Condition) Aden has some nice moments too as a nun who ends up being one of the possessees, once the killer has been executed and comes back from the dead.
Yep, he's another one of those guys. Unlike the schmuck in Shocker, however, this killer has a mission. Or at least Satan has granted him lots of strange powers in the interests of spreading bad will.
Phillips and Griffith do much racing around, during which they get involved in a nicely staged chase through a torrent-filled aqueduct that looks as if it would make a great ride at one of those aquatic action parks. It's not clear how they survive all the fights, since none of their weapons work against the killer. Then, too, the killer can disappear at will, has superhuman strength, and it looks as if his breath might be fearsome too.
Anyway, writer-director Robert Resnikoff, making his feature directorial debut, pulls this all off with a fairly light touch. At one point Phillips tells Griffith, "I thought I told you to stay in the car," without letting on that he's sending up a joke as old as Milton Berle.
The final clash leads, of course, to an equivocal ending that gives the sequel possibility its due. This probably wouldn't be such a swift idea, although the title possibilities might inspire mathematicians: The Square Root of the First Power; The First Power2; The Null Set and Its Relationship to the Number of Worthwhile Modern American Horror Movies. (R) | <urn:uuid:d90f9800-60f2-4951-a55b-804b996981d2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20117538,00.html | 2013-05-22T08:27:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968814 | 455 |
Matthew Perry: Actor
It wasn't always. In L.A.'s private Buckley School at age 15, "I was the coolest guy of the non-cool crowd," says Perry, who moved in with his remarried dad in L.A. after spending his early childhood with his former-model mother, Suzanne, in Ottawa. "We were the guys who made you laugh, but didn't get any dates." Nowadays the 29-year-old Perry, who has squired the likes of Julia Roberts and Yasmine Bleeth, is committed to staying tuned up for Ms. Right. He plays Wallyball (volleyball on a racquetball court) and lets fellow Friend Jennifer Aniston tend his hair ("I like it a little spiky and she always pushes it down"). But his biggest beauty secret is pride. He entered a drug rehab in 1997 for an addiction to painkillers, and emerged, he says, "healthier, which was a very difficult thing to do." Starring in the forth-coming Three to Tango with Dylan McDermott and Neve Campbell, Perry says, "I'm walking through the world pretty happy these days. Hopefully, I'm looking better as a result." | <urn:uuid:8b92c0cd-8d0c-4444-ac0f-f9c90dce70a1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20128170,00.html | 2013-05-22T08:13:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987023 | 249 |
Picks and Pans Review: Sound Off
ON OTHER HIT "SAVE A HORSE (RIDE A COWBOY)" "I really do believe we're raising awareness of the slaughter of horses," says Big Kenny. Plus, says Rich, "I have had a lot of cowboys tell me they appreciate us writing that song. It's helped their social lives."
ON INCORPORATING RAP IN THEIR MUSIC "To me rap has always existed in country," says Rich. "Johnny Cash had 'A Boy Named Sue,' and he was talking the entire time."
ON IF IT'S BETTER TO BE BIG OR RICH "It's better to be both," says Big Kenny. Adds Rich: "You can't have one without the other one. If you want to get everything you want out of life, you've got to get big and rich."
ON WHAT MAKES FOR BIG & RICH TIME Says Rich: "Having the most fun you can possibly have without going to jail." | <urn:uuid:16653abf-f69d-4525-8d5e-fd568b01fe99> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20145265,00.html | 2013-05-22T07:56:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978234 | 210 |
Either we're reading too much between the Tweets, or the 25-year-old "Kiss the Girl" singer is sprinkling clues she's having a baby with new fiancé Russell Brand.
It started with her Jan. 1 message: "Let me tell you 2010 is BUMPIN!" Then on Friday, Perry wrote, "Hey @rustyrockets" – Brand's Twitter name – "i heard ur prego-ed." She adds, "I WANT IN AND OUT," a Southern California hamburger chain, before telling Brand, "I love you … (awwwww barf!)."
Bump, prego, cravings, barf? It was all very cryptic, but then it was only a few days ago that Perry made oblique song lyric references on Twitter – before Brand came out and confirmed they were engaged on New Year's Eve. | <urn:uuid:b3720eac-25c4-4250-9d02-6a6e70709ee6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20335901,00.html?xid=popsugar | 2013-05-22T08:20:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970948 | 180 |
EXCLUSIVE: Samantha Harris Leaving Dancing with the Stars
The Dancing With the Stars co-host will not return to ABC's celebrity dance competition when it returns for its tenth season on March 22. Harris, who has co-hosted with Tom Bergeron for the past eight seasons, told PEOPLE Thursday that the decision to leave the show wasn't easy.
"DWTS could not have been more of a dream job," she says. "I loved every single second of it and I’ve made lifelong friends at the show."
But Harris, who majored in journalism at Northwestern University, says that she is focusing on other projects like her correspondent duties at The Insider, which she says have expanded in the past year.
"I interned at Entertainment Tonight 15 years ago, the summer after my sophomore year at Northwestern and I dreamed of working in the same space as hosts Mary Hart and Mark Steines and now I’m living that dream," says Harris.
"Samantha has been a brilliant part of DWTS and we wish her the best of luck on The Insider,” Dancing executive producer Conrad Green says, noting that he has begun the search to fill Harris’s slot. "She’s done an incredible job. Some of the most memorable moments on the show have been facilitated by Samantha. I think we’ll all walk away with enormous happy memories of working with one another."
Bergeron says he is sad to see his co-host move on.
"I’m going to miss Samantha. We had a nice rapport off-camera and on,” he tells PEOPLE. "I could see that her workload was picking up on The Insider. As somebody who’s been known to juggle a few jobs myself, I know that that can pull you in eight different directions."
Since joining DWTS in 2006, Harris has simultaneously held jobs at E! and The Insider. In 2008 she co-hosted the official Oscar pre-show with Regis Philbin, and in 2009 she guest hosted for Meredith Viera on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. She also made her Broadway debut in July 2009 playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago.
Still, if Bergeron has his way, he will try to get Harris to return to the ballroom. "I've been known to try to twist arms behind the scenes,” he says. "I'm hoping this frees her up for us to have her as a contestant." --Monica Rizzo
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"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek may have never given away a million dollars, but that's no reason to think that his show is anything less than the ratings phenom "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." In fact, Trebek told journalism students at the University of Georgia over the weekend that "Jeopardy!" is better than "Millionaire" in one big respect: It asks tougher questions. "You have to wonder about some of the contestants on that program," said Trebek, who imitated a typical exchange between "Millionaire" host Regis Philbin and an imaginary player. (Question: "What's the usual color of Post-its?" Answer: "Uhhhhhh.") "Granted," Trebek added, "our money is nowhere comparable to those other shows, but so what? People on our program . . . are there for the glory." He also noted that Reege has been on "Celebrity Jeopardy!" three times -- and came in third place every time. So far, there's been no comment from Regis, who's very busy these days counting his money.
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Maureen Reagan Making Progress
Maureen Reagan, 60, eldest child of former President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman, appears to making progress in her fight against malignant melanoma, a ferocious and often deadly type of skin cancer, say her doctors. Dr. Steven O'Day, director of medical oncology at the John Wayne Cancer Institute at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., near the elder Reagan's home, said that while Maureen's progress is still guarded, "her response to the treatment so far is encouraging." She has so far gone through two cycles of chemotherapy, and will begin a third cycle in a few days, O'Day told the Associated Press. In November, doctors removed a golf ball-sized malignant tumor from her pelvis. It was her second bout with melanoma. The first was diagnosed four years ago.
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Actually, more like hats on.
Middleton, 29, who's known for sporting British fashion labels – from Temperley London and blouses from London high street chain Whistles – has been spotted tipping her hat at British milliners.
At a friend's wedding recently, she topped off a black ISSA dress and Libélula velvet jacket with a jaunty black felt beret from Whiteley Fischer, a British hat manufacturer who has been in the millinery trade for more than 60 years.
"She has worn our hats before, but this particular one looked gorgeous on her," the director of the family business, Peter Whiteley, tells PEOPLE, adding: "I think she has quite an original style and seems to carry off her hats very well."
Middleton, who's also been spotted wearing designs by the London-based Irish milliner Philip Treacy, could be leading the way to a hat-wearing resurgence.
"Hats seem to be very fashionable at the moment," says Whiteley. "Once someone like Kate starts wearing them, I'm sure more people will follow."
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Schnautzie the Cat Saved Her Owners from Deadly Gas
It seems that ever since news got out that his three-year-old feline, Schnautzie, won an animal hero award for sniffing out a potentially lethal gas leak in his house, every reporter in the world has felt compelled to phone him up and pester him with questions. "It could have been bad, real bad," explains Guy when asked what would have happened if Schnautzie hadn't alerted his wife Trudy, 55, that something was wrong.
The story starts back in April 2007 when the couple drove to a local pet shop not far from their house in Great Falls, Mont., hoping to purchase a puppy. But the moment they laid eyes on the tiny black kitten that an area rescue group had brought to the store, they knew they weren't going to be leaving with a dog.
Six months later around 2 a.m. one chilly October morning, Trudy was awakened by Schnautzie. The cat was seated on her chest, patting her nose with her paw. The first time it happened, Trudy went back to sleep. But a few minutes later, she did it again and when Trudy opened her eyes, she watched as the cat began sniffing at the air in the bedroom. "Cats don't normally do that," says Guy. "Or at least not any cat we've ever had."
Moments after being awakened, Trudy noticed a strange hissing sound. She elbowed her husband and asked him if he heard it. "I told her it was probably the neighbor's sprinkler," he recalls. Within seconds, however, they realized that the gas pipe leading into their house had ruptured and was filling their basement with potentially explosive fumes. The couple quickly fled the residence. Firefighters who arrived at the scene told them that if their furnace or water heater had kicked on, the result would have been disastrous.
Afterwards, the Guys rewarded Schnautzie with plenty of treats, but the incident was soon forgotten. Then, several months ago, the Great Falls Animal Foundation caught wind of Schnautzie's heroics and on April 11 they gave the cat their Purple Paw award at their annual Fur Ball.
How is she handling all the attention? "She kind of ignores it all," says Guy. "They had a big dinner for her and everyone wanted to pet her. She didn't like that. She's shy around strangers."
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Participants entering the Job Assistance Program are assigned a job mentor who works with them one-on-one to develop job readiness, job search, resume and interviewing skills, and coaches from career choice to successful employment. The program offers referrals and mentoring resources to job seekers to find jobs and help to overcome obstacles to employment, but it is not a placement agency. The PRC and its volunteers do not offer references or endorsements for either hiring companies or clients.For more information about the Job Assistance Program, phone 630-682-5402 x333.
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Alison, a single mom, had a good work history. A job she loved ended after eight years when her company decided to outsource her function. She worked hard to find a new position and did after a three month job search. This job turned out to be difficult for a number of reasons. After six months she was asked to resign. Alison was devastated. She had always felt secure in her jobs and now she questioned her ability to work. She sought the support of the Job Assistance Program at People's Resource Center. She met with her Job Assistance Coach/Mentor weekly. Gradually Alison began to feel more comfortable and started applying for positions. Her steady focus and determination finally paid off. She was offered a job with an excellent benefit package and a higher salary in her area of interest, and has the potential for growth and advancement. The Job Assistance Program enjoyed celebrating her success. Her job coach will maintain contact with her to support her as she transitions to her new job. | <urn:uuid:e5a5f425-3c83-47ee-963f-9661e324e7b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peoplesrc.org/page.aspx?d=what&p=jobs | 2013-05-22T07:55:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950036 | 700 |
Shall we expect Blew Cheese on the menu at Parker 2012 ??
Hey Tony on your boats with nos did u install a purge valve or do you just hammer the gas to purge.
Hey Tony, strange question for you. First off, Mike Pelphrey introduced us a couple years ago at Elsinore, my name's Greg.
Ok, I was on Facebook earlier and a "person you may know" pops up at the top of my screen. It's an old friend from high school. Cindy Bickler. Was Cindy McCurdy 23 years ago. So I start lurking through her page and find you, Gordy and Rankin in her friends list.
How do you all know her?
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I have been watching the posts regarding getting wet driving a flat. It seems different people have their own ideas about that, but since some say it will probably happen, some say it absolutely will happen at some point. My opinion is it could happen and to a certain extent it depends on how hard you run and how far you push it. I would like your experience. I am aware you have been wet from the circle boats, but I am not aware of your getting wet from a flatbottom dragboat. Has it happened and if so were you pushing the boat to its limit. Was it probably your fault or a mechanical error? At what speed does it seem to go from might or could happen to it will probably happen.
I try to learn from others mistakes and experiences.
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Will do. Does Wally Wardall have a profile on this site?
I was wondering are you going to be at the Needles deal?
Hey guru do you still have the instigator boat and are you willing to sell?
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I got this canvas for my friend and he totally loved it. It was sent so quickly and timely. I just wish it could be in a larger size but still a good deal.
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Men are more at risk than women of dying suddenly from a cardiac arrest that is caused by irregular heart rhythms, a report from the National Audit of Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome (SADS) has suggested.
Sudden cardiac arrest was thrust into the media spotlight earlier this year when Premier League footballer Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the pitch during a game.
The audit, which analysed results of 317 cases from 17 hospitals recorded since July 2008, suggested that the biggest proportion of SADS happens to people in their 30s.
Nearly two-thirds (62%) of deaths were in males and the average age of death, where recorded, was 33.
The majority of deaths, where recorded, occurred between 6am and 6pm and about one-third of people died while resting.
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"Brave People Need NOT Apply"
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National Pest Management Association
Monday, August 13, 2012
We look forward to seeing your contest submission! To enter, just upload your video or photo here: http://www.facebook.com/PestWorld/app_402350029817954
The contest closes on August 20th, so be sure to get your submission in before then! Good luck!
Jennifer K'ryn Graham
Sunday, August 12, 2012
I have the best anit-bug scream! I can't stand creepy crawlies of any type and my scream has been heard 3 houses away! My family says it is the stuff of horror movie soundtracks! Let me scream for your contest!
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Written by PETA
Update: Click here to read PETA President Ingrid Newkirk’s Op-Ed in The Virginian Pilot about why PETA brought Vick into the office.
Contrary to recent news reports, there is absolutely no agreement with Michael Vick to appear in a PETA public service announcement. However, we are in discussion with his representatives to do a PSA that would take the issue of dogfighting head on, dogfighter to dogfighter. But it would be under the strictest of guidelines. The script we discussed was:
“Look at me. I have lost everything—my career, my income, respect, friends. I’ve hurt my family, and I am an object of scorn. My life is ruined. I have gone from being a star to the gutter, and now I’m going to jail. Don’t be a loser like me. If you fight dogs, stop. And if you don’t, don’t start.”
If Vick were to do this, we would be very pleased. Short of that, it’s not happening. But what do you think? Should Michael Vick do a PSA directed at potential dogfighters to send the message that if you fight dogs, you will lose everything?
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"I Am American"
25 May 2004
I got this in an email from a friend. It's one of several "I AM ...", but I thought the American one was the funniest:
> I AM AMERICAN > > Wassup... > I'm not particularly intelligent, open-minded, or well-liked. > And I don't live in a safe place, eat a balanced diet, or drive very >well. > I don't know Shakespeare, Da Vinci or Gutenberg, > although I'm pretty sure they were American. > > I drink beer, not water, I am outspoken, not opinionated, > Guns settle disputes, not discussions. > Winning isn't everything, it's the ONLY thing, > And it's pronounced RUFF, not ROOF. > > I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack, unless I go >somewhere. > Burger King IS fine dining. Washing after peeing is for LOSERS, > Twinkies and Moon Pies ARE GOOD for breakfast, > I have a SHED, NOT a GARAGE, and WWF ACTION IS REAL! > > The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the ONLY country in the world, > The FIRST nation of IGNORANCE, > And the BEST part of SOUTH AMERICA!! > MY NAME IS JIM-BOB, I am married to my sister, > AND I AM AMERICAN!!!!!!! | <urn:uuid:5258be40-6a7f-4ee8-88ec-43bb21d8e271> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.peterbe.com/plog/blogitem-040525-1 | 2013-05-22T08:32:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936505 | 295 |
Helly Hansen Elg 2 Shoe (Men's)
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E. Coli infection in Dogs
Colibacillosis in Dogs
Colibacillosis is a disease caused by the bacterium Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli, which normally resides in the lower intestines of most warm blooded mammals, including dogs. Normally, the presence of E. coli is benign, and even beneficial, but in some cases it can cause a diseased condition, especially in newborn puppies.
E. coli infection is most commonly seen in puppies in the first weeks of life. In the first day after giving birth, bitches produce a watery milk that is rich in antibodies. This milk, called colostrum, plays a pivotal role in protecting a newborn puppy's undeveloped immune system against various infections, as it coats the intestinal tract, protecting the puppy from most infections. In the absence of these antibodies, puppies are more vulnerable to a number of infections, including E. coli infection.
If the pregnant bitch is infected with E. coli, the bacteria can also invade a puppy’s blood supply while it is still in uterus, during birth, or the puppy can acquire the infection from feeding from its mother's inflamed mammary glands.
Colibacillosis often leads to a condition called septicemia, or blood poisoning, meaning there is an dangerously high presence of bacteria in the blood. Though primarily a disease of young dogs, it can also affect older dogs. E. coli infection, when combined with other infectious agents, also increases the severity of parvovirus infection in dogs.
Symptoms and Types
Colibacillosis is sudden (acute) in nature and may cause the following symptoms in an affected puppy:
Colibacillosis is ultimately due to an E. coli infection. However, risk factors for this type of infection include poor health and nutritional status of the pregnant bitch, lack of colostrum (first milk) to the puppy, unclean birthing environment, difficult or prolonged birth, crowded facilities, concurrent infection/disease, inflammation of the mammary glands in the nursing bitch, and placement of intravenous catheter.
Due to the acute onset of this disease, few abnormalities may be noted in blood testing. In order to see if E. coli, or any other infectious agents are present in the dog's blood, your veterinarian will take blood, urine, and if possible, fecal samples for culture.
As colibacillosis is an acute condition, most affected puppies need to be hospitalized for emergency treatment. Good nursing care is required, with balanced fluids administrated by injection to restore body fluids. To treat diarrhea, a glucose solution will be administrated by mouth. Antibiotics can be prescribed initially based on the observed symptoms, and may be changed, if necessary, according to the results of the bacterial culture and sensitivity testing of E. coli.
Unfortunately, because of a newborn puppy's undeveloped immune system, treatment is often not successful and the newborn may succumb to death rapidly. Therefore, prompt treatment and supportive care is essential for saving the puppy's life.
Living and Management
Restricted activity, cage rest, monitoring, and warmth should be provided during the recovery period. To maintain an adequate nutritional level, bottle feeding or intravenous nutrients may be advised. This is necessary if the mother's mammary glands or blood are infected. Otherwise, it is preferable to have the puppies drinking their own mother's milk in order to benefit from the antibody rich milk.
During the recovery period, your veterinarian will take blood samples to run bacterial blood culture testing to determine the status of the infection. Home care will involve monitoring your puppy's body temperature and watching for any changes in health so that you can contact your veterinarian immediately for guidance. Once your puppy has stabilized and is out of danger, further treatment will depend on how the puppy progresses.
To prevent E. coli infection, make sure that your breeding, pregnant, or nursing bitch is in good health and nutritional status. The birthing environment should be kept clean and sanitized, and bedding should be replaced frequently after the birthing (the linens that were used for the birthing should be discarded in a sanitary manner, as in most states they are considered hazardous waste material).
The most important safeguard for preventing E. coli infection in puppies is to allow them full access to their mother's colostrum (the first milk after birth). In addition, you must always wash your hands and change your outer clothing and shoes before dealing with newborn puppies in deference to their developing immune system. This is a general rule, but is especially important after handling other dogs or animals.
The glands in female animals that are used to produce milk; also called the udder or breast
A condition of the blood in which micro-organisms or harmful toxins are present in the system
The hollow bodily organ that holds the embryo and fetus and provides nourishment; only found in female animals.
A female dog that has not been spayed.
The singular form of the word bacteria; a tiny, microscopic organism only made up of one cell.
A protein in the body that is designed to fight disease; antibodies are brought on by the presence of certain antigens in the system.
The end of the gastrointestinal tract; the opening at the end of the tract.
Term used to imply that a situation or condition is more severe than usual; also used to refer to a disease having run a short course or come on suddenly.
Not being able to cause harm; the opposite of malignant.
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The solstice came and went late March. Spring, it tells us, is on the way. A good month later we celebrate the month of flowering -- the season for Morris Dancers and children in white outfits weaving colored ribbons around a May pole. And outside the...
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HARBOR SPRINGS -- There's a new owner at A.R. Pontius Flower Shop in Harbor Springs, and she's only the third owner in the shop's 90-year history. Jamie Platte, 36, originally of Petoskey, bought the flower shop recently from her aunt, Nancy Rondel....
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GAYLORD — The American Association of University Women Gaylord Area Branch has joined forces with The Zonta Club of Gaylord Area to offer a scholarship adventure for the for the two-day course “Young Women in Science” aboard the schooner...
Students from Sheridan and Central elementary schools in Petoskey collaborated with Leadership Little Traverse class of 2013 to host book drives for the leadership service project, FreeCycle Book Bins. With the help of these two Petoskey elementary...
EAST JORDAN -- Matt Hamilton's Shoe Club at East Jordan Middle School is dedicated to helping students learn to set goals and a mission for their lives. Hamilton, a history teacher at the school, has collected shoes from people who excel at what they do...
So, is winter ever going to leave us? I feel so bad for all the birds that are migrating back to this yucky weather. Today I noticed my song sparrows are back and juncos are migrating through the area. I threw out a scoop of thistle and sunflower seeds...
Margery Noreen McGhan, 88, a long-time resident of Traverse City, died Monday evening, April 1, 2013, at her home, comforted by her loving family. Born March 20, 1925, in Charlevoix, she was the daughter of the late William and Ruth (Whitney) Hair....
HARBOR SPRINGS -- A Harbor Springs dental practice recently was recognized by the Harbor Springs Area Chamber of Commerce for its status as the chamber's longest-running member. Dr. Graham "Mike" Pierce notes that he wasn't the dentist who first...
TRAVERSE CITY -- The Northwest Michigan Council of Governments recently announced the release of a guidebook that communities statewide can use to recognize and support farm and food business collaboration and innovation. "Food Innovation Districts: An...
With St. Patrick's Day, another kind of green comes to mind for local gardeners -- a green thumb. David Coveyou of Coveyou Scenic Farm Market says that mid-March is a good time to plant those vegetable seeds in indoor pots. "Most people gardening at...
Gardening can be great exercise, but few gardeners, me included, take time to warm up and stretch the way we would before any other exercise activity. More gardeners sustain injuries during the spring time than any other time of year. Unless you have...
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"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
George Orwell, Animal Farm
In the quote above, Orwell was referring to animals' political rights but he might well have been referring to the grooming requirements of dogs. All dogs require grooming but some require more grooming than others.
A smooth-coated Dachshund
or Doberman Pinscher, for example, require only minimal grooming as adults, whereas Silky Terriers and Afghan Hounds are in the high maintenance department.
It's a good idea to start out as you intend to continue with a dog rather than to suddenly attempt to impose your will on it when it reaches some arbitrary age. Since grooming is something that you are going to have to do, whatever type of dog you've got, this practice should be started in puppyhood.
The name of the game is desensitization
. If a puppy
learns right from the beginning that being handled, combed and brushed is not something not to be feared but is associated with pleasant experiences, things will go a lot more easily down the road (the road of life that is).
Remember, the sensitive period of learning continues through 14 weeks of age, though puppies still absorb information at a rapid rate through the juvenile period (up to 6 months).
If an owner teaches the pup how to accept grooming at this early stage, grooming will never be a problem for the rest of the dog's life. If, however, an owner pins the dog and comes at it rudely with a wire pin brush, the negative consequences of this experience could cause a lifelong aversion. The fact that some dogs enjoy being groomed while others try to bite their groomers is testimony to the dichotomy that exists. How to Ensure that Your Pup Enjoys Grooming: Acknowledge that an 8-12 week old puppy is a wriggle worm. Be patient. Handle it gently and reward even momentary acceptance or tolerance.
Don't set out to achieve too much. Be accepting of a modicum of success, especially for the first few times.
Lightly restrain the pup during grooming sessions making a conscientious effort to handle the youngster in the vicinity of its face and ears, chest and abdomen, beneath its tail and around its paws. Applying a little gentle pressure to the pup's paws while you address it kindly. This is a good way to teach the pup that when you handle its paws you mean it no harm.
Teach your pup to accept gentle restraint, either cradled in one arm, face down or belly up, and teach it to roll over on its side or on its back. Restraining a puppy gently on its back (not an "Alpha roll") is a good way of encouraging relaxation. The pup should enjoy being gently rolled onto its back and being supported there. Its body will go limp, its eyelids may flutter, and it may lick or yawn as it relaxes. When a square-backed pup is thoroughly relaxed, it may be possible to walk away and leave balanced on its back.
Either on the first occasion or after a few sessions of teaching the pup to tolerate your interventions, introduce a brush or comb onto the scene. Gently comb or brush the pup's rear end (just a few swipes of the brush will do). Reward acceptance with verbal praise, petting, or a food treat. If the pup is interested in the comb or brush, allow him to explore it and sniff at it before progressing. Gradually brush further up the pup, towards the nape of the neck and, finally, around the head/neck region. If there is any resistance, move further away from the head and continue brushing. Always end sessions on a good note.
To start with, you should not be trying to achieve a nose-to-tail grooming of the pup but rather to acclimate the youngster to the grooming tools and the feel of being groomed. Grooming tools include a comb, a bristle brush, sometimes a wire pin brush, and/or a slicker brush. Another tool that it could be helpful to introduce at this time is an emory board for filing nails (not that you'll need to do much serious filing at this age). The idea is to teach familiarity and tolerance.
With luck you should be able to comb and brush any area of your pup within a matter of days. If you continue with even the lightest perfunctory grooming on a regular basis throughout puppyhood, grooming will become an accepted facet of the pup's life.
Ensure that grooming, no matter how little or how much, is a positive experience and acknowledge that your pup's struggling or resistance indicates that all is not well. Do not push the issue. Do not force things to happen. Rather, back off and try again later, even more gently than before, to establish trust and understanding. If the puppy learns that you will respond in an appropriate way to any complaints that it issues, it will help build trust and mutual understanding. | <urn:uuid:8edd671d-4a28-4929-a565-753dcd861e08> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.petplace.com/dogs/grooming-your-puppy/page1.aspx | 2013-05-22T08:02:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955777 | 1,027 |
Bring a new energy to your forecourt - with the Petrotec P-Fast the future starts today!Audio version
This novelty marks another Petrotec’s chapter and reinforces the group’s mission to offer its clients cutting-edge solutions that combine innovation and concern for environmental sustainability.
- Fast-charging chademo (20 to 30 minutes from 0% to 80%)
- Inserted in the consumers daily routines
- Fast and simple install, does not require major works (considering the existence of suitable electric infrastructures)
- Innovation and experience of the Petrotec group
- Integrated in mobi.e network
- certified by chademo international
A Business with Future
Petrotec’s Director of Engineering and Product Development says, ‘We will invest on early positioning in the elec-tric mobility markets, which is still in its early stages.’
‘We believe in the Integration of an innovative product that will facilitate the transition from ex-isting petrol stations to what will be the future in terms of filling stations.’
Mário Nova introduces the Pfast pump and the concepts and ideas that will make this new product the future of mobility in the current Petrotec downstream n.e.w.s.
[FOLLOW THIS LINK] to read the interview with Mário Nova.
Contact data of Petrotec Inovação e Indústria, S.A.
Parque Industrial da Ponte, Pav. C2 - S. João de Ponte
Contact phone: +351 253 479 300
Contact fax: +351 253 479 318
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The last thing Dayne Cyr heard was the sound of his seven-week old puppy yelping, as dog-nappers grabbed it by the neck and drove off.
The 18-year-old said he was out for a walk Sunday afternoon with Sugar — a mixed breed female that looks a little like a pit bull — when he turned into the Burger King parking lot on St. Laurent Blvd. to get the pooch some water.
He said he was walking towards the stairs going into the restaurant when an a man in the passenger seat of an approaching car reached out and pulled the dog from his arms.
Cyr chased the car out of the parking lot and watched it drive south on St. Laurent and turn off towards Smyth Rd.
The car is described as a grey or silver Pontiac G6. He wasn’t able to get the licence plate number.
He said the man who took the dog — which actually belongs to his mother Jackie — looked familiar.
“I’ve seen him once or twice before," said Cyr. “I’ve seen him on the bus.”
He said he doesn’t know the man’s name and has no idea who he is.
The pet is named Sugar because it is completely white.
“It yelped and it upset me,” said Cyr. “As soon as they took off with it I tried grabbing the car, but they took off too fast and I really couldn’t do anything.”
The value of the dog is not known, but police are classifying the theft as being under $5,000. The puppy was a gift to Cyr’s mother from a friend of the family.
“We got it for free, but it’s still priceless to her,” he said.
Cyr and his mom have been canvassing the neighbourhood looking for their dog and letting others know to keep an eye out for possible dog-nappers. Jackie said police told the family this is the second report of a dog theft since May.
Police couldn’t confirm this.
When driving around looking for the puppy, Jackie said they bring their other dog, 11-year-old Bailey, with them.
“We tell her ‘look for Sugar,’ and she starts crying,” Jackie said.
Police are investigating the incident. Officers said Cyr is expected to come in this week and give a written statement because some of the details reported here differ from what he told officers Sunday.
Cyr said the man who grabbed the puppy had long black hair, a goatee and was wearing a black hat. He said the man appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. In addition to him, there were two others — the driver and a back-seat passenger.
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Posts from — April 2010
Just when you think you have adjusted to all the pain you have to live with, something stupid happens.
2 Weeks ago I was stepping out of the shower, onto a dry floor, on a dry towel, and my right knee buckled. Yes the one without a meniscus….God be praised I didn’t hit the floor, but I did hit the edge of the shower and the wall pretty hard.
Both of my doctors were out on vacation, so the next doctor I saw was my pain management doctor.
After she got done explaining what the word stupid meant and how it supremely applied in this case, she sent me for stat x rays.
When we got home I glanced at the calendar and realized I had an appointment with my surgeon that afternoon.
Back to S.E. Imaging to get a copy of the x-ray on disk. Dr Lowell read them and said you have a new fracture at L-3. Great, wonderful, the best news is that the treatment for this , is to inject a cement like material into it to stabilize the vertebrae.
He said NO WAY was he taking a chance of my body rejecting that, a real nightmare is what he said.
So a brace for 8-10 weeks, an for God’s sake if it gets worse call him.Vertebres will heal is you behave youself
These are spring Phlox that grow nearly everywhere here in Ocala, I put this together so you can admire Tiggers fangs!
April 17, 2010 No Comments
Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, FIRST Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Sergeant Major James E. Booker, United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy while serving as Sergeant Major, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment, FIRST Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, U. S. Marine Corps Forces, Central Command, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM from February to September 2004. Sergeant Major Booker courageously exposed himself to enemy fire while leading Marines and eliminating enemy forces in several battalion engagements. On 31 March 2004 the forward command element came under intense machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire. With utter disregard for his own safety, Sergeant Major Booker dismounted the vehicle, engaged the enemy and forced their withdrawal. He pursued his attackers down several darkened city streets and mortally wounded a rocket-propelled grenade gunner who was engaging the Command Group. Sergeant Major Booker subsequently led a search that resulted in the arrest and capture of an eight-man cell and several weapons. On 10 April 2004, the forward command element came under fire from insurgents during cordon and search operations. He calmly led a team of Marines in a counterattack, personally clearing several buildings, eliminating one insurgent fighter, and facilitating the evacuation of a severely wounded Marine. Sergeant Major Booker’s efforts enabled the forward command element to regain freedom of maneuver and inspired Marines to fearlessly engage the enemy. By his bold leadership, wise judgment, and loyal dedication to duty, Sergeant Major Booker reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero.
We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
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To all of our friends and family, we would like to wish you you a Blessed holiday today as we celebrate our Lord’s Resurrection.
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A bad situation may sometimes have good effects, and what is required
now is to draw lessons from this global economic crisis and the
subsequent losses suffered by most countries. Science maintains there is
no such thing as "absolute truth", but the current global financial
crisis is evidence that there is no absolute free market. Truth is
always relative, just like freedom.
It is important to look for positive points to find a way
out of the financial crisis. Despite the gloom of the global economy and
the pessimistic atmosphere enveloping the entire world, all countries,
separately or collectively, are working hard to contain the crisis, or
at least to minimise losses.
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Is Recycling Worth It?: An interesting study about whether recycling was good for the environment with an overwhelming nod in favor toward recycling most things:
Studies that look at the entire life cycle of a particular material can shed light on this question in a particular case, but WRAP decided to take a broader look. It asked the Technical University of Denmark and the Danish Topic Centre on Waste to conduct a review of 55 life-cycle analyses, all of which were selected because of their rigorous methodology. The researchers then looked at more than 200 scenarios, comparing the impact of recycling with that of burying or burning particular types of waste material. They found that in 83% of all scenarios that included recycling, it was indeed better for the environment.
People Can’t Be Bothered to Make Easy Energy Savings: When a study was done on the most efficient ways to cut carbon emissions, the conclusion was that our current methods are a “testament to economic irrationality.”
Economists trying to explain this apparent irrationality suggest that the savings are too small and the effort involved in change too large. People find their electricity bills too boring to think about; within companies, those responsible for keeping bills down may not have the authority to spend the necessary capital. Another explanation is the agency problem: that the developer who would have to pay higher capital costs up front will not be forking out for the electricity bills. Besides, people buy houses not because they have good insulation but because they have pretty views.
I encourage you not to be one of those who feels as described above. One of the wonderful things about learning to save money is that often times it also helps the environment and that’s a win-win situation for everyone involved.
Myths About Gas Prices Mask Real Problems: This is a well put together article about common myths and gasoline prices. Well worth the read and you may be surprised at what you learn.
And for those that need more reading material:
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Mark Wilson had some fun on the amphitheater 16th hole in the third round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open, donning a cheesehead and joining caddie Chris Jones to lead the rowdy fans in Packers chants.
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After nearly 55 years in the air, Arnold Palmer is leaving the cockpit.
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Phil Mickelson was locked in concentration over a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-3 16th, the some 20,000 onlookers mostly quiet on the amphitheater hole except a fan who screamed "Tiger would make it!"
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The U.S. Open will rely more on the world ranking than money list in America and Europe to determine which players will be exempt from qualifying.
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At the frosty Waste Management Phoenix Open, it was fitting that a guy called "Tommy Two Gloves" had a share of the lead. Not that Tommy Gainey thinks the extra glove really helps in cold conditions.
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Bubba Watson started play with a ski cap and kept his hands warm between shots with mittens. Ben Crane wore two hats and three pair of pants. And Phil Mickelson played his final nine holes in short sleeves.
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Frozen turf wiped out Wednesday’s pro-am at the Waste Management Phoenix Open and frost was expected to lead to long delays before play Thursday and Friday.
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Phil Mickelson is the star attraction at the Waste Management Phoenix Open this week, but the noisiest crowd in golf might well be saving its biggest cheers for the new kid on the block.
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PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said golf doesn’t depend solely on TV ratings, although good news never hurts.
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One of the more compelling images from Torrey Pines apparently won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
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The trouble with being so good for so long is that it makes the bad times look even worse. Tiger Woods never looked worse at Torrey Pines.
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Bubba Watson has such a tough time keeping his mind from wandering away from golf that he walks with his head down. If he had bothered to look around on the final day at the Farmers Insurance Open, he might not have believed what he saw.
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The biggest news from the latest edition of the Official World Golf Ranking might have been found far from the top. Vijay Singh slipped to No. 105 in the world, the first time in more than 21 years the Fijian has not been in the top 100.
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Chris Riley played in the Tour Championship back-to-back years, and followed that in 2004 by making the Ryder Cup team. But he hasn’t been the same since, failing to keep his card for five straight years until he finished 90th on the money list in 2010.
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Tiger Woods began a new year with his worst season debut. Woods failed to birdie a par 5 for the second time this week and closed with a 3-over 75 on Sunday in the Farmers Insurance Open, ending his five-tournament winning streak at Torrey Pines with a middle-of-the-pack finish.
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Bubba Watson tempered his celebration when he rolled in a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday at Torrey Pines, knowing Phil Mickelson could still make eagle on the par-5 closing hole to catch him.
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The way Phil Mickelson likes to play golf, he didn't have much fun Saturday at Torrey Pines. Based on how he needs to play the South Course, Phil was thrilled.
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A strong finish by Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson made them feel better about their rounds Friday on opposite ends of Torrey Pines, and better about their chances of catching Bill Haas.
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John Daly criticized two tournaments Thursday for not giving him sponsor exemptions, saying he would never play the Bob Hope Classic and Phoenix Open again.
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Pharmacy Robbery in New York: Disturbing News
Published Online: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
What in the world is happening?
Pharmacy robberies have been around as long as I have been in the profession. Pharmacists have been killed in robberies, too. But somehow it seems to me that the problem is more in the news recently. See the news report
of the recent killing of 4 innocent people in New York, including a pharmacist and his high school assistant.
Does this horrific event suggest that the problem of pharmacy robberies is increasing nationwide—or is there just more media reporting and instant news via the Internet? I once thought that putting in bulletproof glass to protect the pharmacist was overkill. But seeing how some individuals try to get access to controlled substances suggests to me that finding new ways to protect pharmacist employees makes sense.
Being sensitive to this practice reality cannot be ignored. This recent event in Long Island has many in the profession thinking about their safety and the nationwide oxycontin drug abuse problem. (Also see Cmdr John Burke’s column
on this topic.)
How do you approach the possibility of robbery in your job? I think it is time to start a discussion now.
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Since coming to Congress about 35 years ago, Henry Waxman has been pivotal in shaping legislation on health and drug regulatory
issues. In several important initiatives, he has demonstrated his ability to balance policies that promote consumer access
to less costly medicines with the need for incentives that encourage biomedical innovation.
As chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health and the environment for 15 years, he engineered enactments
of the Orphan Drug Act in 1983 and the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act, which established the modern generic drug industry. At first,
pharma companies were not enthusiastic about the orphan drug bill, he recalls, because it "highlighted an area where they
had dropped the ball." To make it more attractive to develop drugs for rare diseases, Waxman and others offered a period of
exclusivity when sponsors of such therapies would not face competition, laying the basis for a highly successful program.
The generic drug legislation also reflected a need for tradeoffs between drug development and affordable medicines. Waxman
recalls that pharma companies first tried to get Congress to extend patents for the months FDA took to review a market application.
After that strategy failed, Waxman helped craft a compromise: extended patents plus delay of generic approval until five years
after approval of the brand, in exchange for permitting generics to rely on the brand's safety and effectiveness data, with
FDA approval of generics during that five-year waiting period. Now 70 percent of prescriptions are filled with generics at
huge savings, Waxman notes. The program is "not perfect," he says, possibly because pharma companies continually seek to extend
the period of patent coverage as much as possible.
Waxman also supported the landmark drug user fee program, even though he regrets the need to take this route, considering
it a federal responsibility to support FDA operations. But he acknowledges that the fee program has served its purpose, and
is looking to extend it next year, possibly with additional drug safety requirements.
Drug prices are a long-time interest for Waxman. He hopes to establish rebates on drugs for Medicare dual-eligible beneficiaries,
which would eliminate what he considers a big windfall for industry under the Medicare drug benefit program. "I believe there
should be much more drug price negotiation than what we've seen in the US," Waxman says. He observes that pharma companies
are quick to cite Europe's longer patent exclusivity policy because it serves industry's purpose, but notes strong precedents
in Europe for negotiating prices because the government is the major purchaser of drugs.
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Global expansion through the creation of foreign affiliates or acquisition of smaller companies often makes good business sense. But, exploration
of new foreign markets means overcoming language barriers and understanding completely new cultures. This article offers tips
on addressing the challenges of training global teams, mainly—though not entirely—from the perspective of language barriers
and translation-related issues.
The challenges of training global teams revolve mainly around location, time, and financial and technological resources. It
must first be decided whether everyone will convene in one place—or at least be accessible at the same time (web conferencing,
web casting)—or undergo training individually, through self-learning techniques.
Often, the most cost-effective and easy-to-implement approach is a combination of the two. The available budget will largely
determine options. A limited budget, for example, may prohibit face-to-face meetings, so distribution of a CD for online self-learning
is a good way to go. Another option is to organize train-the-trainer sessions and have each local team deploy local programs.
Training materials must be ready in advance in different languages, and they should all look very similar. If you can afford
it, preparing printed materials and gathering your teams in a single location can provide good return in terms of learning
Regardless of whether it takes place at a single location or among several, global training involves considerable spending.
It is therefore a good idea to define measures that are likely to improve return-on-investment (ROI).
Jon Niemczyk, director, global performance development, international pharmaceutical, for Alcon Labs says that global training
participants at his compan are required to adhere to a list of pre-meeting requirements, such as completing certain reading
assignments. And according to Paul Elias, curriculum and media development specialist with Performance Design, a common problem
when dealing with global training is a lack of buy-in on behalf of the participating company. If trainees are not properly
prepared—or worse, forced to participate in inadequately supported training—optimal results will not be achieved and ROI will
Here are 12 tips for creating a successful global training program:
1 Ask a language service provider (LSP) for input Preparing training programs involves several phases, from selection of content to selection of the development team. Even
if you choose an existing program, it is still advisable to have it evaluated by a LSP for adequacy and adaptability. Not
all training programs are created equal: Some are ready for translation, and others are not.
2 Follow basic text guidelines Use the following guidelines when creating documents for your program:
- Use simple English to enable easy translation.
- Avoid using humor—or use it very carefully.
- Limit the use of abbreviations, and when they are necessary, always include their meaning at the first mention. If you must
use them, a glossary is extremely important, because it's a waste of time for trainees to repeatedly inquire about acronyms
- Avoid using idioms, slang, and culture-specific phrases or words.
- If you must use area-specific jargon or vocabulary, include it in the glossary. This will help the translator, as well as
the final reader.
3 Consider your target language When creating the original English version of a training program, think about the languages into which the program will eventually
be translated. Otherwise, problems can arise in the translation process. One third of each page, ideally, should be left blank
so that paragraphs in languages less concise than English will not run onto the next page. If not, the translator wastes time
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THIS THURSDAY: FREE "Dress to Impress" Networking Event; Win a Hand-Made Shirt or Blouse
This Thursday, Sept. 24, join clothing vendors Distante, Doncaster and Astor & Black at the YLD's FREE "Dress to Impress" Networking Happy Hour, from 6-8 p.m. at Ladder 15. All three vendors will give attendees the chance to win a hand-made shirt or blouse. Drink and food specials will be on hand. "Dress to Impress" is sponsored by Ace Reporters. READ MORE
YLD Seeking Nominations for Executive Committee Posts; Due by Oct. 20
Every year, seven new members are elected to serve three-year terms on the YLD Executive Committee. This year's Election will take place on December 8 in conjunction with the Bar Association's Annual Meeting. All nominations must arrive at Bar Association headquarters by 3 p.m. on Oct. 20. CLICK FOR DETAILS, NOMINATION FORMS
TODAY: Our Dialogue on Diversity; Lunch Only Available to Pre-Registrants
On Sept. 22, the Bar Association will host the summit "Our Dialogue on Diversity" at 12 p.m. at the CLE Conference Center at the Wanamaker Building. Due to an overwhelming response, lunch will only be available to those who pre-register. READ MORE
Early Bird Special Ending THIS Friday, Sept. 25
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Mike West enters his second season as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia University women’s basketball team. In his role, West is responsible for opponent scouting and creating scouting reports, game strategy, off-season workouts, practice layouts, and recruiting.
He joins the Rams’ staff after one year as the head JV and assistant varsity boy’s basketball coach at Upper Perkiomen High School in Pennsburg, Pa. West created and implemented the strength and conditioning program and worked with the players to develop their skills.
West was an assistant varsity and JV boy’s basketball coach at North Penn High School in Lansdale, Pa. from 2006 until 2008. He was responsible for the Knights’ strength and conditioning program, and contacted collegiate coaches and coordinated and participated in college visits to help his players get recruited. West also scouted opponents, broke down game film, and provided plays for in-game situations.
From 2004 to 2008, West was a staff member at the Mike Fergus Basketball Camp in Lansdale. He was responsible for camp registration, managed camp finances, and organized daily routines for the players during the three-week summer camp.
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Few people get the chance to personally experience one of sports biggest events, but one local woman will be right in the thick of it.
Buckingham resident Jennifer Nelson, a junior at James Madison University in Virginia, is spending several days in New Orleans volunteering at Super Bowl XLVII.
“I’ve never been to a Super Bowl. This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” said the 20-year-old, who graduated from Central Bucks East High School.
Nelson, who's majoring in sport and recreation management, was selected to join 10 other students from JMU’s School of Hospitality, Sport and Recreation Management to volunteer at fan and tourist events prior to the match-up between the National Football League's San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens.
“A lot of people don’t even realize they have so many events leading up to the game,” said Nelson.
Unfortunately, she and the others don’t have tickets for the Super Bowl.
“Hopefully, there will be TVs around there,” said Nelson.
She was born in Colorado and is a Denver Broncos fan, but on Sunday, she’ll root for the Ravens.
The purpose of the trip is to give Nelson and the other students practical experience in the hospitality and sport and recreation management fields, according to JMU. After college, Nelson hopes to work for the Olympics or a professional sports organization.
One of the main reasons she wanted to volunteer at the Super Bowl was its location. Last year, Nelson took part in a weeklong Hurricane Katrina relief project in New Orleans with other JMU students.
“It had such a huge impact on me,” she said. “With the Super Bowl in New Orleans, I wanted to go there.”
Nelson plans to return to New Orleans this May to take part in more volunteer work.
She and the other students will volunteer at four events prior to the Super Bowl.
- NFL Experience: Assist with interactive stations such as the autograph stage, punt/pass/kick events, youth clinics, the NFL memorabilia display and the Super Bowl trophy exhibit.
- Super Bowl Boulevard: Welcome tourists to the city and assist them, including communicating game, event, transportation and hospitality information.
- Celebrity Beach Bowl: Assist with a flag football game involving NFL greats and Hollywood celebrities.
- NFL Tailgate: Assist guests during the NFL's official tailgate party, which includes current and former NFL players, VIPs and football fans.
Nelson will tweet about her experiences. Follow her at @JMU_SRM and @JenNelson_JMU.
Hilary Bentman is a freelance writer. Discussion about this story may be directed to editor Amy Gianficaro: (215) 345-3051; email, [email protected]. To subscribe, go to phillyburbs.com/orderIntell | <urn:uuid:bc26326a-b185-4017-af97-a509b19eae30> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/the_intelligencer_news/buckingham-woman-a-super-bowl-volunteer/article_2493e719-2dbb-5600-9413-4f4b4c3ce4d1.html?mode=story | 2013-05-22T08:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950717 | 623 |
Mom remembers being stuck in bed on Osborne Avenue with scarlet fever in 1932, and as night fell, hearing newsboys running through the streets yelling: “Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped!” Lord, she’s lived a long time.
At the cemetery, I say I have something I want to tell her. It’s something I’ve never said, and when I do, my mother cries behind big round sunglasses that always remind me of Jackie Kennedy.
I tell her she has been a wonderful spitfire of a mother to me.
“It’s not death I fear,” Mom told me one day recently. “It’s getting there.”
She means, of course, that she’s afraid of pain and suffering. Aren’t we all. As things between my mother and me have abruptly shifted, I have a revelation on why I sat around, for a few years there, more or less believing that my mother would live on forever, more or less ignoring her: because I didn’t want to acknowledge being next in line. Once your parents are gone — my dad’s been dead 16 years — you’re it. I don’t mean that I’m afraid of dying, either, because I’m like most red-blooded Americans. I’ll concede that I’m probably not going to live forever, but the end is nowhere in sight (only 56!). Being the last man standing, that’s lonely. Painfully so. Which is just the sort of thinking that — not to put too fine a point on it — made me a child in how I avoided my mother.
Another theory: My story is a microcosm of our national paranoia over death.
Baby boomers like me, and the alphabet generations following mine, have had a very slow introduction into becoming true adults. We’re coddled, and endlessly optimistic. As Tom Cole, an expert on aging at the University of Texas, put it to me: “We do live our lives pretty well anesthetized against death. And more and more, we see aging as a disease we can conquer.”
Well — no. We can’t. And knowing that, really knowing that, is a good thing.
Because, finally, it’s not lost on me that my new understanding of how dear my mother is to me comes with the grandest irony: It arrived by way of considering her demise.
These days, I’m checking in on Mom every other day or so. Pennswood has her in physical therapy, since she strained her back when she blacked out and fell. “Once they’ve got their fingers in you,” she says of medical people, “they never let go.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Philly Soccer Page’s series of fan posts continues now on a weekly basis. This week, we feature a missive from Lori Bilyou, who is currently serving in Afghanistan with the Delaware National Guard. Lori wrote this Saturday, before Philadelphia Union’s big win over Kansas City.
I’m not the most die hard fan. I’ll admit it. There are plenty others out there who have been rooting for Philadelphia longer than me. Still, when I reflect on my own history and introduction to the Sons of Ben via a bus trip to a US v. Mexico World Cup qualifying match in Columbus, Ohio, 2009, I just shake my head and smile. Craziness!
My husband and I have had season tickets in the River End for three years running, and until this year, I’ve only missed a handful of home games. The inaugural season, I was in Army public affairs school at Ft. Meade, Md., and drove the sometimes five-hour trek to make weekend home matches.
Season 2, when my husband was sent to Army Officer Basic Course in Georgia, he subscribed to MLS Live to catch the games, we kept our two season tickets, and I planned summer trips to visit him in Georgia around Union home games. He’s a SOB too. He understood.
In his absence, I filled his seat in the River End with either my best friend or my sister, creating two more die hard Union supporters that summer. While unofficial, I like to think I played a big part in keeping the chants going in our section and in relaying them to the next section down. Officially, I started sounding like Brigitte Nielsen by the end of the season and was put on total voice rest by my doctor, who said my overworked vocal chords needed a break.
This year has been tough. With a seat change, we now have the best season seats so far in the River End, but I’ve only gotten to visit them once. I made the 17-hour trip home during a short break in mobilization training to be at PPL Park for the home opener. I got to tailgate with the SOBs and sing happy birthday to Danny Califf. I recorded every chant that the River End sang so I could take the feel of PPL with me when I left again.
MLS on deployment
Now I’m in Afghanistan. To my dismay, I learned within 48 hours of arrival that my MLS Live subscription doesn’t work outside of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It was the first crisis I faced in country.
Still, I had hopes that I might catch an occasional game on AFN, the Armed Forces Network, but a brief survey of the scheduled sports programming assured me that wasn’t going to happen. When I was in the chow hall and caught the tail end of ESPN’s sports wrap up showing the best plays of the week, only to see two seconds of Danny Califf in a Chivas USA uniform, I all but quit eating lunch.
It is, however, a multinational base, so with the European Cup in full swing, there have been “football” viewing opportunities. But, as they refuse to play sound on the televisions in the chow hall, I found myself watching the Croatia v Spain match accompanied by the River End season opener recordings chanting from my iPhone. Really, my friends, it was sad.
Yet hope springs eternal, and in a place of little comfort, small things matter. That is why right now, I’m wearing my Union t-shirt and my SOB scarf. I found a website that posts realtime match plays, and it’s DOOP day in Chester! Yeah, the eight and a half-hour time difference means I’m waiting for a kickoff at 3:30 a.m. but we know it’s worth it! So while all you die hard SOBs are tailgating in Chester, have one for me, and remember, at 20:10 there will be one SOB singing in South Asia, Brigitte Nielsen voice and all. | <urn:uuid:8ebf38ee-5038-4823-bb14-cdad21915754> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phillysoccerpage.net/2012/06/27/fans-view-a-son-of-ben-in-afghanistan/ | 2013-05-22T08:27:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963448 | 873 |
Phil Sharp is one of the most promising and exciting offshore sailors today. Young, tenacious, and extremely talented, his ambition is to be the first Briton to win the Vendée Globe.
Phil has proven himself as the future for British ocean racing. Winning the famous Route du Rhum solo transatlantic race in 2006, he is the last Briton to do since Ellen MacArthur. It is clear that Phil will be the name to watch in sailing.
This is a four year campaign cycle, with a strong emphasis on performance and technology. The aim is to achieve top results in the highlights of the IMOCA class: the 2014 Barcelona World Race and 2016 Vendee Globe. The Vendee Globe is racing at its most breathtaking: one man against all, battling against the elements of the oceans in the quest for victory. It is the pinnacle of solo sailing, where skippers race non‐stop, single‐handed around the world in boats of pioneering technology. Not only one of the most challenging and enduring adventures on the planet today, the Vendée Globe is also one of the most competitive and gruelling of all races. To make his dream to win the worlds most famous sailing race a reality, Phil needs significant support and sponsorship.
Why Get Involved?
Sport sponsorship is a proven technique for complimenting brand image and values through positive association and advertising. Visible yacht sponsorship provides the perfect “peg” on which to hang a series of additional marketing communication activities including separate public relations campaigns, hospitality, brand extension and support to existing advertising schedules.
Solo ocean racing is the premier class in sailing today:
The visibility provided by yacht sponsorship, coupled with the myriad of supporting marketing opportunities, provides the perfect opportunity for a corporate partner to raise brand awareness.
Aspirational yet accessible, dynamic and challenging, sailing sponsorship provides a plethora of ways to engage customers and employees alike and can offer real return on investment.
Fantastic corporate hospitality experiences with sponsor packages tailored heavily in order to deliver high return on investment.
Competition and adventure will be communicated via pioneering technology to a global audience throughout the races, designed to deliver yacht sponsors value for money on a level previously unmatched in the sport of sailing.
Find Out More
Sharp Racing is currently looking for additional partners to his IMOCA campaign, and is offering some introductory packages for the first big race, the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabres which starts in November 2013.
Please contact Phil for more information at +44 (0)7973 378997.
Le Gallais were extremely satisfied with their return on investment around Phil's Mini Transat campaign:
"Phil was unknown to us when he approached us for sponsorship for the Mini Transat qualification races. His dedicated approach and competitive results during the qualifying rounds convinced us that here was an individual who had the utmost desire to succeed and the competitive drive to deliver. Sponsorship of the overall race was now a necessity. Phil's 4th place in the Mini Transat 2005 was a fantastic result for both him and his team and provided a great deal of pride to our workforce who followed his every move. The local and national media exposure was way above our highest expectations and the positive feed back from our customers still continues today, some eight months after the event." | <urn:uuid:53693c0a-816c-4727-b8c1-957e87c4fe78> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.philsharpracing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=29 | 2013-05-22T08:13:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952117 | 668 |
By Monica Alonzo
By Ray Stern
By New Times Staff
By Stephen Lemons
By Chris Parker
By Monica Alonzo
By Stephen Lemons
By Robrt L. Pela
A self-described Arizona patriot, Burgess is a faithful trooper in the militia culture that President Bill Clinton has blamed for the bombing of the federal building.
Today, Cheryl Burgess is looked at more seriously by people who used to think of her--when they thought of her at all--as hard evidence of the diversity of God's bounty upon this Earth. Once regarded merely as eccentric, this politician is now viewed with alarm.
In fact, two weeks after the bomb went off in Oklahoma City, Burgess was pilloried by a fellow member of the town council for her obsession with U.N. troops, black helicopters, the federal government in general and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in particular. During the tongue-lashing of Burgess, a muscular man sat off to the side and watched the fireworks in Wickenburg's Town Hall. The silent visitor resembled the sketch of the elusive John Doe No. 2. The similarity of the stranger to the likeness of the federal fugitive was so striking that a shaken observer phoned in a tip to the FBI.
Despite the rash of rumors spreading across the landscape, I couldn't simply dismiss the possibility that Cheryl Burgess might know something. It is a fact that Arizona's trailer parks have already coughed up Timothy McVeigh, Steven Colbern, Dennis Kemp Malzac, Michael Fortier and Preston Haney, as well as ersatz John Doe No. 2s Robert Jacks and Gary Land, all of whom have been arrested, detained or questioned closely since the blast. The tin-can homes that sheltered these weapons enthusiasts are all within hailing distance of Councilmember Burgess, fitting neatly inside a roughly 130-mile radius--by western standards, a very small piece of real estate indeed.
After the Oklahoma blast, President Clinton cited the Dungeons and Dragons netherworld of the militias and McVeigh's links to these paramilitary groups as justification for his Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. As a package, the president's bill plays fast and loose with the constitutional safeguards of our civil liberties. This legislation calls for 1,000 new federal agents, wide-ranging wiretaps, increased access to financial and credit records, and the establishment of a Domestic Counterterrorism Center.
The president has also asked Congress to suspend the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, a law that bars the use of America's armed forces in domestic law enforcement.
The problem with Clinton's finger-pointing at the patriot movement is that no one has been able to demonstrate that Timothy McVeigh is, in fact, part of the militia.
McVeigh has allegedly denied any association with militias. And militias across the country have rejected the idea that the suspected bomber was a fellow patriot.
Nor have federal agents established any firm militia ties to Colbern, Malzac, Fortier, Haney, Jacks and Land.
If the three most prominent targets of the FBI investigation, McVeigh, Fortier and Terry Nichols, have anything in common, it certainly is not the militia: What all three men share are their days together in the U.S. Army.
The pieces in the bombing puzzle, at least as described by President Clinton, do not fit. If Cheryl Burgess had an answer, I wanted to hear it.
When I arrived in Wickenburg, Councilmember Burgess had a seven-page fax and a photograph that she wanted me to review.
The photograph Burgess points to is in the May issue of Soldier of Fortune, attached to a story titled "Wacogate." The black-and-white print on page 50 shows three men, all of whom are identified as government agents, one of whom, the magazine claims, attended the trial of the Branch Davidians with a machine gun hidden under his trench coat.
Burgess says that the "BATF agent, the one with the burp gun," is a dead ringer for Timothy McVeigh.
"Of course, photographs can be misleading, but we've done an analysis of his ear in relation to his jaw," she notes.
Whatever the results might be of Burgess' phrenological survey, it cannot mask the problem that the man in the photo looks about as much like McVeigh as does Burgess herself.
The seven-page fax Burgess possesses was distributed throughout America's militia outposts on April 22, three days after the explosion in Oklahoma City.
It is a remarkable document, part of an alternative communication system that bypasses traditional media and unites the patriot movement by means of ham radio, videotape, fax machine and the Internet. The communiqu‚ has been ignored by the press even though it is read as gospel by the militias.
The directive, labeled "Intelligence Survey," contains a quiver full of barbed allegations: There were two explosions, ten seconds apart, in Oklahoma. The government and the media hid this fact. A third bomb was discovered. A pair of witnesses saw a black helicopter over the top of the federal building shortly before the explosion. The "top personnel" of the BATF and other federal departments were moved out of the building 24 hours before the blast, ensuring that none of the agents or their children would be injured during the explosion.
The writer concludes that a "clandestine inner-federal government plot" was behind the bombing, "thus creating a mental crisis in the minds of everyone . . . "
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Samsung Galaxy Ace Discussions
Battery Heat up
cyics posted on 16 Oct 2011, 04:37 0 0
I read some reviews on samsung website about Galaxy Ace that its having problem of battery heat up that even while playing a game its getting heated and also poor battery life and HD games are not supported...
Battery Heat up discussion about Samsung Galaxy Ace | <urn:uuid:b451824f-88bf-4abf-aed6-e321e0619b9e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phonearena.com/phones/Samsung-Galaxy-Ace_id5145/discussions/Battery-Heat-up_id1764 | 2013-05-22T08:20:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943869 | 73 |
Kristian Høgsberg of Wayland fame has announced Weston for Wayland...
But before getting too excited, however, Weston is just a renaming of the demo Wayland compositor.
In this mailing list post
, Kristian outlines his reasons for renamining the sample/demo wayland-compositor to Weston. This mostly comes down to avoiding confusion.
Like Wayland, Weston is also a town in the US state of Massachusetts.
In related news, there's also a lot of clean-up work going on for the Wayland X11 compositor. See this mailing list message | <urn:uuid:33a64d1e-3475-4b15-9954-b19f20bdf936> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAzNjc | 2013-05-22T07:55:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.904542 | 127 |
Amazon has its Class 10 SDHC cards discounted through October 2. The discounts range from marginal to substantial; however, all of the prices are still good deals. For example, the 16GB cards are currently $23.49 and the 8GB cards are $10.34. Complete details here at Amazon.com.
I’ve never used the Amazon Basics-branded cards before, but the ratings from users show that they are mostly well-regarded. Here is one detailed review that looks at speed comparisons among Amazon and Transcend Class 10 cards and show that these Amazon Basics cards perform quite well.
The Class 10 rating is a rating intended for evaluating video capture performance. In this case, Class 10 is the fastest rating currently available for video performance, which means these will work with just about every HD video camera on the market today. For a more detailed explanation of SDHC card classes and speed ratings, check out my prior article on Demystifying SD Cards. | <urn:uuid:1f56b800-8602-4804-8ed6-cba773caaaa6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.photographybay.com/2011/09/19/amazon-class-10-sdhc-cards-on-sale/ | 2013-05-22T08:13:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96396 | 198 |
Nikon Coolpix 5600
Review Date: May 9th 2005
(out of 5 stars)
The Nikon Coolpix 5600 is a compact, stylish and easy-to-use point and shoot digital camera. The scene modes are both numerous and advanced in their implementation and will really help the beginner, and the in-built help system, although limited, will also prove useful. The Nikon Coolpix 5600 has a couple of new features that aim to make the photographer's life easier, both of which work well. D-Lighting was very effective, offering an in-camera solution for revealing detail in the shadow areas of an image without also over-exposing the highlights. The Red-Eye Reduction feature also worked as promised, with no evidence of red-eye.
Now onto the limitations. The Nikon Coolpix 5600 is strictly a point and shoot camera, with no creative control over apertures or shutter speeds. It is also not well-suited to capturing fast-moving subjects, with limited continuous shooting modes and no continuous auto-focusing option. The zoom lens is noisy and quite slow in operation. Image quality is only average. Noise and chromatic aberrations were both very well controlled, but the images were soft out of the camera and you can't change the sharpening level, which means that you will either have to accept that all your photos will be slightly soft, or sharpen them later using a program like Adobe Photoshop. The maximum ISO speed of 200 severely limits the kind of lighting conditions in which you can use the Coolpix 5600. Furthermore, you can't choose the ISO speed yourself and the camera had a tendency to select ISO 50 whenever possible, at the expense of setting a suitable aperture and shutter speed combination.
Other points worth noting are the lack of a histogram, either in playback or whilst taking a photo, which makes judging exposure trickier than it should be. Perhaps the most annoying aspect of the camera's design is that you can't get out of the Play or Menu modes by half-pressing the shutter button, which means that you may miss that important shot. Most other digital cameras allow you to do this and it is something that is sorely missing on the Nikon Coolpix 5600. There is no auto-focus assist light on the Coolpix 5600, so focusing indoors was very difficult, and when it did achieve focus the camera had a tendency to underexpose slightly.
Overall the Nikon Coolpix 5600 will be best suited to the point and shoot photographer who is willing to leave most decisions up to the camera and who will mostly use the camera outdoors. For the photographer who requires more control, the Nikon Coolpix 5600 is not such a good choice. The more expensive Nikon Coolpix 5900 that I previously reviewed is a much more capable camera than the Coolpix 5600 and well worth the extra money.
PhotographyBLOG is a member of the DIWA organisation. Our test results for the Nikon Coolpix 5600 have been submitted to DIWA for comparison with test results for different samples of the same camera model supplied by other DIWA member sites. | <urn:uuid:89f784c1-216a-4f9d-bc2a-b91e0f6c44a8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews_nikon_coolpix_5600_8.php | 2013-05-22T08:01:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962852 | 652 |
PMA is staring tomorrow in Anaheim, and they gave us a little peek into what we may be seeing from some of the photographic manufacturers.
The HoodLoupe used on many new HD DSLR rigs, got some attention from the press.
We’ll be taking a closer look at the Fuji instant cameras.
Everyone’s favorite, Moo cards, will explain it all to us.
Are you on a boat? Then this new offering from Delkin may save your electronics. And we hear that you can text through the watertight bag. Do you really need to do that underwater?
One of our favorite subjects, Geotagging, has a new kid on the block from Foolography.
Look Ma, No Sleds!
Major back-up with no proprietary sled fro the hard drive.
And the folks at ThinkTank have a whole new way to pack your gear. Closer look coming.
Off camera monitor? Heck yes, we want to see more of this!
OK, there you have just a few things form today. Tomorrow, we hit the ground running.
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Just installing Gallery for the first time on a test board (3.0.7) and I get the following error just after the image section in the install script:
The script crashes out with no way to go forward. Any ideas? The only unusual thing about the install is that I've had to rename the Gallery directory to VBAGallery as I already use another gallery with the same dir name. I understood this could be setup via the AdminCP afterwards though and shouldn't affect the install? | <urn:uuid:ac92a81e-d3ba-4e63-adad-a91c05508102> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.photopost.com/forum/1121680-post1.html | 2013-05-22T08:14:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936973 | 101 |
Photo Options issue
we hav a problem with the collapsable Photo Option menue.
Specially in the member galleries the Photo Option menue is not working, means is not collapsable -screen 1 -.
In many other categories it is working, but not for all members.
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• this theme features a Theme Control Panel. Is basically an infusion which gives you the ability to change theme
settings like width without having to alter any theme files.
• the search field in the header. It will automatically add the option to search the website area you are on.
• avatar for the last user which made the post in a forum or thread.
• winter mode, adds some winter/snow styling effects to the theme
• the "sticky thread" was replaced icon with a nice "PINNED" green tag
• added to Locked threads a "LOCKED" red tag
• better quote formatting
• "edit note" on edited posts is better and nicer formatted
• a scroll-to-top script that can be reused for any anchor to do a smooth scroll to it
to reuse the script add class='scroll' to the link or class='scroll clean' if you don't want the #hash to be added
to url after scrolling is done
• several SEO optimizations
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Prize: One book of choice by O'Reilly
|In PHP you can use the pcntl extension to create parallel processes that run multiple PHP tasks simultaneously.
However, when available, the pcntl extension only runs under UNIX/Linux systems.
This class provides an alternative to run parallel processes in PHP without depending on the pcntl extension. It uses the PHP CLI program to start new parallel processes.
|Applications that use this class|
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In this new blog post, Evert Pot talks about getting the most out of your web-based applications through some simple caching types - filesystem, APC, and Memcached.
Caching is very important and really pays off in big internet applications. When you cache the data you're fetching from the database, in a lot of cases the load on your servers can be reduced enormously.
For each of the three caching types, they provide some code and include some discussion around it (like the strategies surrounding using it, problems with its use, and why it would even be used at all). Installations are included where needed (like for the memcached stuff) to get you up and running quickly.
It's not really a comparison so much as just stating what's out there, but it's a good place to start if you're new to caching in your applications. | <urn:uuid:e065f1eb-9010-4fd5-b2bd-b423b4d422a2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6623 | 2013-05-22T08:19:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961979 | 180 |
Zend Framework 1.5.0 Preview Release now available
It is my pleasure to announce the availability of Zend Framework 1.5.0 Preview Release! This release showcases features that will be introduced in the final 1.5 release. The intent of this release is to give our users access to the latest features in...
|HTML5 Video tag implemented in Flash|
To get it working, you just need to include the shim along with the video tag:
Read more at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/299835333/html5-video-tag-implemented-in-flash.
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Eight Weeks of Prototype: Week 5, Ajax with Prototype
Ajax.Updater class is an extension of the normal
Ajax.Request class, specifically used to update a DOM element with whatever content is returned from the HTTP sub-request. The alternative would be to use
Ajax.Request yourself directly, then manually handle the response and update the required element accordingly.
Listings 2 and 3 show an example of using
Ajax.Updater. In Listing 2 is some basic HTML content that we are going to load into the page shown in Listing 3.
<p> Here is some HTML content, with any element you would normally use, such as <strong>bold</strong> and <a href="http://www.example.com">a link</a>. </p>
When you load this code in your browser you will see a button that says "Click Me!". When you click the button, an Ajax request is triggered to request the
listing-02.html file. This occurs in the event handler
The first argument to
Ajax.Updater is the element to populate with the results from the Ajax request. The second argument is the URL to fetch. As mentioned previously, we could also specify options to pass as the final arguments. Because this example is somewhat trivial, I have not done so, but you will see how to do this later in this article.
If you're unsure how the event handling code works in this example, please refer to the fourth article in this series.
Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater class is somewhat similar to the
Ajax.Updater class, except instead of performing a single sub-request and updating an element it will continue to perform sub-requests after a specified period, thereby continually updating the element's content.
Because this class and
Ajax.Updater are extensions to the base
Ajax.Request class, the remainder of this article will focus specifically on using
Ajax.Request. For more information about
Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater, refer to the Prototype API documentation at http://prototypejs.org/api/ajax. | <urn:uuid:a195e800-ff46-4a9b-add0-9e7e5e2a7573> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.phpriot.com/articles/ajax-with-prototype/3 | 2013-05-22T08:34:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.754307 | 463 |
Brian Swan's Blog: Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP Available in Web Platform Installer
On his blog today Brian Swan talks about the Azure command line tools for PHP that are now a part of the Windows Platform Installer (WebPI).
The Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP are now available in the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (Web PI). This announcement was made on the Interoperability Team blog as part of a post that outlines interoperability elements of a cloud platform. The entire post deserves a close read, but I'm initially most excited about this small piece of the announcement.
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|Mar31-09, 09:01 PM||#1|
Sources and Sinks of CO2
Here is a paper published in Energy and Environment that claims the rise in CO2 is not from the combustion of fossil fuels.
I am in the process of reading it now and thought I would share it here.
The first thing that jumps right out at me is that they claim on the one hand that all the CO2 emitted in the NH is absorbed before it can travel to the SH. As evidence in supprt of this assertion they use the time lag for C14 dispersal from nuclear weapons testing.
If the CO2 is absorbed, how can it be dispersed? This seems a contradiction to me.
|Mar31-09, 10:20 PM||#2|
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The provided link is to Iceages, a denialist website.
Was this paper published in a peer reviewed science journal?
It impresses me as a violation of forum rules.
Anyhow, just glanced thru the paper. Believe it is fairly well established that ENSO events have an impact on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, claims that the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations are not from combustion of fossil fuels is simply preposterous.
Nuclear weapons testing were essentially point sources. Fossil fuel combustion is widely dispersed.
Don’t really wish to waste time reading thru junk science to figure out all of their errors and deceptions.
|Mar31-09, 10:57 PM||#3|
Interesting paper from Energy and Enviorment which I believe is a peer reviewed journal. This is what the author says are the results of the study:
"The results suggest that El Nino and the Southern Oscillation events produce major changes in the carbon isotope ratio in the atmosphere. This does not favour the continuous increase of CO2 from the use of fossil fuels as the source of isotope ratio changes. The constancy of seasonal variations in CO2 and the lack of time delays between the hemispheres suggest that fossil fuel derived CO2 is almost totally absorbed locally in the year it is emitted. This implies that natural variability of the climate is the prime cause of increasing CO2, not the emissions of CO2 from the use of fossil fuels."
|Mar31-09, 11:02 PM||#4|
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Sources and Sinks of CO2
Checking my own work for errors... I'll be back.
Cheers -- Sylas
PS. I'm an idiot. My first post was invalid; and I'll look more carefully.
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After such a mess on the first try (now deleted) I felt obliged to give a more careful response.
Human emissions count mainly as a flux from geological reservoirs into atmospheric reservoirs. This leads to continuously increasing levels throughout the whole cycle as emissions start to move through the system; because the natural long term flux back into geological reserves is much smaller than the anthropogenic emissions flux in reverse.
The total additional carbon being removed from geological reserves is ending up all through the carbon cycle, with a net flux at present out of geological reserves and into other more dynamic reserves. For every 10 kilograms of carbon removed from geological reserves, we end up with about 5 more in the atmosphere, 2 or 3 in the ocean, and the rest in other reservoirs.
In my first comment on this paper, I made a dumb mistake (mixed up molecular weights in a conversion); and attributed the error to the author; and then compounded the error by posting too quickly. This is that post, restored and fixed up.
Figure 1A starts out with a comparison of emissions and rates of growth of atmospheric CO2. The data for Mauna Loa is available here.
To put this diagram in context; the fluxes shown indicate carbon being placed into the atmosphere at a rate rising from 3Gt/year up to 8Gt/year at present. At the same time, the natural fluxes in the carbon cycle transfer over 200 Gt/year into and out of the atmosphere. The difference is that the natural cycles are cyclic, whereas the transfer from geological reserves is cumulative. The consequence of the enormous natural fluxes is that what we add to the atmosphere gets flushed through the rest of the system. The total carbon content in the atmosphere is about 750 Gtonnes.
Comparing the natural flux to the total reservoir size, we can do a back of the envelope guess, that 25% of atmospheric carbon is recycled and replaced in a given year. At the same time, we are adding something like 1%, per year of what's there at present, based on emissions. Based on the fact that the rate of cumulative increase is about 0.5% per year, there's 0.5% per year being flushed out. It's a reasonable first order approximation to think that if we stopped emissions tomorrow, flushing rate would remain about the same, which would imply CO2 levels should start to drop at about the same level that they are presenting rising if emissions stopped dead. This rate of fall would drop off, at a rate that depends on the effective capacity of other reservoirs.
This paper depends heavily on doing subtractions. To get the annual rates of increase, they subtract absolute measures. To attribute fluxes on one thing or another, they subtract the rates. Subtractions of this form have large uncertainties. You can get useful information from trends, but at a particular year, you are likely to be overwhelmed by local effects. For example; to get the rate of increase at Mauna Loa, you just subtract reads from one year to the next. The resulting series will show a definite trend that the rate of increase is accelerating (that's a difference of differences, or second derivative) but when you look at the series over a particular year or two, you are almost certainly just looking at the local variations around Hawaii.
Here's another example. Look at figure 3 in the paper. This shows quite a stready drop in the C-13 proportion of atmospheric carbon. Conventionally, this is considered strong evidence that there's an increasing amount of carbon from geological reserves: a signature of the flux from fossil fuel use. The author seeks to discredit this notion; but how? Figure 4 shows a difference calculation. Basically, instead of plotting δ13 directly, you get the average value around a point, and plot the difference with that average. Basically, Quirk is plotting at each point the difference between that and a smoothed line through the original data. Look at the vertical scale. Figure 3 covers a depth of 1.2 from top to bottom. Figure 4 covers a span of 0.35. There may be a signal there for some effects; but this process is certainly amplifying any noise!
Figure 8 goes on to compare two sets of differences; which indicates that when the δ13 fraction goes about it's smoothed out line, the net growth rate tends to go below the smoothed line.
Here's what I think. There's a lot of natural variation going on, and if you go out of your way to remove the long term trends – which means removing the accumulation of geological CO2 into the atmosphere (!) then you see mainly the variations in natural cycles. By and large, there's a flow from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. No surface there… most of the additional flux into the atmosphere is in the North. Compare figures 9 and 10. Te first thing you note is that there's a lot more variation in the north. That would follow if carbon was not as well mixed, so there was more of a difference between the atmosphere and other reserves. The other thing that's apparent is that the North has more negative δ13 values. In the South, the values wobble around -7.4 to -7.6 at the start, and end up wobbling around -8.0. But in the North. The variations are larger, but the start is around -7.4 to -7.8, and the end is around -7.95 to -8.2. Smoothed out, there's clearly a lower δ13 values in the North – the signature of geological reserves.
So it sure as heck looks like geological carbon showing up in the North especially, and then ending up South as well by which time it is mixed up better as well.
Quirk takes differences, which looses all that information entirely because the main trends is gone – that's what differences do. And by figure 8, he's showing that an increase in the rate at which CO2 accumulates seems to align pretty well with increases in the rate at which δ13 is dropping. But isn't this still just an obvious consequence of mixing? No matter what natural cycles drive the small variations, when they help mix up the reservoirs, they'll be contributing to the mixing in of δ13 depleted geological carbon into the southern reservoirs!
Conclusion. It's hard to follow this paper, and frankly I think it is because Quirk is working so hard at avoiding the clear implication of all the main trends in the carbon cycle. The data he is using shows plainly a growth of δ13 deleted carbon it the atmosphere, correlated with growth in carbon in total. It's showing up most of all in the North, where it is preferentially in the atmosphere by contrast with other reserves, and it is mixing into the South as well; plus it is better mixed down here.
All of this supports the blistering obvious. CO2 levels are increasing mainly by virtue of a large flux of carbon into the atmosphere from geological reserves, driven by the use of fossil fuels. It's not a value judgment or a political ploy. It's just a bleeding obvious aspect of the world we live in.
In his conclusions, Quick makes three claims, which seem to be either non-sequiturs or nor valid implications of his data.
All told: I'm unimpressed. It will play well to the usual suspects; but it seems to be an extended exercise in denying the obvious, carefully getting rid of trends before doing any analysis, and then missing the simplest explanations for what is seen anyway.
This is too long again, but I don't think the paper is worth the time it would take to clean up these comments into something more brief.
Sigh – Sylas. "Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." (Pascal, 1656)
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Everyone thinks of the Seychelles as a winter holiday destination, and Seychelle Island Vacations to one of the increasing number of Seychelles Five Stars Hotels tend to be taken between November and March.
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Hello. My name is Jetta and I'm a Husky/Shepherd mix about 4 years old. I have taken up temporary housing at the Humane Society of Washington County. I was dropped off here one night not long ago so they don't know much about me. Everyone here says I'm very handsome. I have a soft dark coat with lighter coloring on my chin and belly and I have two different colored eyes. Isn't that neat?
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Date: October 4, 2012
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Default has occurred in the conditions of the following described mortgage:
DATE OF MORTGAGE: August 4, 2008
ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: $265,000.00
MORTGAGOR(S): James D. Kuklis and Lisa Kuklis
MORTGAGEE: Woodlands National Bank
DATE AND PLACE OF FILING: August 5, 2008, in the office of the Carlton County Recorder, as Document No. A000418958, as amended and modified of record
ASSIGNMENTS OF MORTGAGE: N/A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY:
Units 15 and 16, Common Interest Community No. 6, Planned Community, TRAILS EDGE
COUNTY IN WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED: Carlton
STREET ADDRESS, CITY AND ZIP CODE OF MORTGAGED PREMISES: 1503-1505 Trail Dr., Cloquet, MN 55720 a/k/a 1605-1607 Trails Dr., Cloquet, MN 55720
TRANSACTION AGENT; RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE SERVICER; AND LENDER OR BROKER: Woodlands National Bank
TAX PARCEL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER(S): 06-752-0150 & 06-752-0160
TRANSACTION AGENT'S MORTGAGE ID NUMBER (MERS NUMBER): None
NAME OF MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR: Woodlands National Bank
THE AMOUNT CLAIMED TO BE DUE ON THE MORTGAGE ON THE DATE OF THE NOTICE: $271,827.57
THAT no action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, or any part thereof; that there has been compliance with all pre-foreclosure notice and acceleration requirements of said mortgage, and/or applicable statutes;
PURSUANT to the power of sale contained in said mortgage, the above described property will be sold by the Sheriff of Carlton County as follows:
DATE AND TIME OF SALE: December 4, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
PLACE OF SALE: Carlton County Sheriff's Office, 317 Walnut Avenue, Carlton, MN 55718
to pay the debt then secured by said mortgage and taxes, if any actually paid by the mortgagee, on the premises and the costs and disbursements allowed by law. The time allowed by law for redemption by said mortgagor(s), the mortgagor(s)' personal representatives or assigns is six (6) months from the date of sale, unless reduced to five (5) weeks under Minnesota Statutes §580.07.
TIME AND DATE TO VACATE PROPERTY: If the real estate is an owner-occupied single-family dwelling, unless otherwise provided by law, the date on or before which the mortgagor(s) must vacate the property, if the mortgage is not reinstated under Minnesota Statutes §580.30 or the property is not redeemed under Minnesota Statutes §580.23, is 11:59 p.m. on June 4, 2013.
MORTGAGOR(S) RELEASED FROM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION ON MORTGAGE: None
THE TIME ALLOWED BY LAW FOR REDEMPTION BY THE MORTGAGOR(S), THE MORTGAGOR(S)' PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES OR ASSIGNS MAY BE REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS IF A JUDICIAL ORDER IS ENTERED UNDER MINNESOTA STATUTES, SECTION 582.032, DETERMINING, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT THE MORTGAGED PREMISES ARE IMPROVED WITH A RESIDENTIAL DWELLING OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, ARE NOT PROPERTY USED IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AND ARE ABANDONED.
WOODLANDS NATIONAL BANK
By Paul A. Loraas, #249592
Fryberger, Buchanan, Smith & Frederick, P.A.
302 West Superior St., Suite 700
Duluth, MN 55802
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So, yesterday was a very bizzy day. The first part of the day was spent celebrating the first birthday of a friend’s darling baby and the second part was spent running the streets of downtown LA for the New Year’s Race half marathon. Honestly, I love running in the evening or at night, I generally prefer it to running first thing in the morning … but a half marathon that starts at 9:30 pm is no joke … especially after you’ve been up running around all day ;)
The party was really fun, with lots of supercute kids running around. I got to hang out with Tamar, Rob, Gen and Charlie for the most part. As you can see, we all had fun with the photobooth :)
I tried to rest up all afternoon, leading up to the big race last night but I couldn’t really sleep and my eating schedule was all effed up … but I ran the race and had a lot of fun, particularly because I got to run it with Tam’s brother Jeremy:
I was very surprised and happy to learn that the race took us into Dodgers Stadium where we got to run around the field. Running DTLA at night was really fun but man, it got cold. I finished with a 2:12 time … which wasn’t bad, IMHO, since I hadn’t run a considerable distance in many weeks. If you can believe it, I have a full marathon next weekend at Disney World. Lord, I’ve lost my mind.
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A truely inspirational man who will be Deeply missed. As said his legacy will live on.
Rest in peace Clint Walters.
My deepest sympathy to Clint’s family, loved ones and friends.
I hadn’t heard of him before. What an inspiring story. His selflessness appears to have been remarkable.
I am glad that he suggested that the great surge towards 24-hour gay-pleasure in the clubs of London may have divested the community of worthy principles and encouraged a contagion of selfishness.
What a Truly Inspirational Guy Clint Walters was, I met him 10 years ago when I worked for a record company and we became close friends. Never have I met someone who was so dedicated and committed to spreading the message of awareness and his Dream of the 24 Hour Clinic. I supported Clint as much as I could possibly could and he was always there for me. We even talked about another project I so wanted Clint to do, writing a book, I felt it would not only give strength to others and especially younger people but also spread the word of HIFY his Charity, but Clint was always so busy, we laughed so many times when he would say to me “I will start it tomorrow, promise” but tomorrow never came, late last year we started to think more seriously about it. It saddens me he never saw his Dream of the Clinic achieved! When I received the sad news in an email yesterday morning, sent late Wednesday evening, it was as if a Light has been Switched Off, I will always miss You Clint, Condolences also to his Mum and Family – John xx
Like a lot of good people, he turned his illness into a positive reason to help other people; RIP.
Oh and I forgot; if the Pope is reading this or any of his minions this man’s virtues are what a true human being does for his fellow man and not your stupid rantings about your so called moral highground!!!! OK!
For those who really don’t comprehend just how tirelessly Clint worked for what he believed in: at the age of 31, he already had more than ten years of activism and outreach work under his belt, was a 2005 Winston Churchill Fellowship winner, was a poster boy for the 2001 UNAIDS World AIDS Campaign and featured heavily in MTV’s Staying Alive campaign.
He may not have achieved all his dreams, but he achieved more than most ever will.
Sweet dreams, dear friend.
I’m really sorry to hear about Clint. wonderful and dedicated man, really sad news.
Mark, I agree fully that Clint achieved More than the majority of us will do in a lifetime in his too short life – Rest in Peace Clint!
I too was not familiar with Clint but he sounds like a great Guy.
His words “Why do I have this nagging feeling the gay scene is losing touch with what’s really important – compassion for the safety of your fellow man. Have all the 24 hour clubs, drugs and alcohol finally [taken] their toll or was it ever there in the first place?
A question I feel we all should contemplate and do something positive to address.
One of the UNAIDS/MTV Staying Alive segments featuring Clint http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=23106137
The good always die young RIP Clint. Your words are sincere the scene has lost its touch. Baerback videos are the most depressing things I’ve ever seen and apparantly the most popular.
A tragic loss, and his death should be used as a timely reminder that HIV prevention must get back to basics. Clint was only 31 years of age, and undoubtedly the stress upon his body of ingesting Aids medications on a daily basis inflicted their toll on an already compromised immune system. Men of Clint’s age and younger need to be targeted in HIV campaigns that tell the truth about the serious consequences of living – and dying – with the virus. RIP Clint x
RIP, Mr. Walters. Tragic you didn’t have at least another 31 years!
Long exposure to HIV medications have been found in a number of studies to significantly increase the risk of heart disease, neuropathy, osteoporosis, and mental degeneration.
Keep Clint’s legacy alive: promote safer sex, protect yourself and your sex partners, and TALK ABOUT HIV. Reject “bareback” porn and get angry about it: those disposable beauties make for ill consumption.
Thank you Clint
And “rejecting” and “getting angry” about bareback porn accomplishes what exactly – minus showing how well you swipe at phantoms, that is? It’s all the rage in gay circles now to jump on this anti-bareback bandwagon, because like a lot of people stressed and frustrated over something that seems out of their control (that being this virus/disease), gay men want to oversimplify the reality. In typical fashion, gay men have managed to shift the main focus here from the virus to a mere sex act that in itself has just as much potential to be harmless as homosexuality. But since gay men only seem to think with such clarity when debating against opposition to gay marriage, it’s easy to get carried away with conflation. The problem gay men are facing is as much about a sex act as same-sex molestation is about homosexuality. Correlation does not equal causation. Whatever strategy must be used to tackle this problem of HIV in gay men, it mustn’t begin with false presuppositions and outright agendas – namely that sex without a condom can never be a respected option because honestly, if it’s logical to say that bareback is to blame for this epidemic just because people who did it have the virus, then logically, gay sex too is the problem.
Incidentally, I would very likely be “safer” having bareback sex for SOME (not all) porn producers, than if I went out giving unprotected blowjobs to several HIV positive men at the local bathhouse. But let ideology and oversimplification rule the day, the latter is the “safer” choice always and forever.
“I would very likely be “safer” having bareback sex for SOME (not all) porn producers, than if I went out giving unprotected blowjobs to several HIV positive men at the local bathhouse”
I very much doubt it.
Brian, you appear to be wrestling with some doubts.
Do you not think that playing hard-core bareback sex video looped and non-stop in saunas and sex-on-site premises, is likely to encourage and tempt all those who pass by those screens to wish to participate in exactly the same activity?
There are all sorts of other things that gay men can do together to enjoy sexual pleasure together, activities which are far far safer. Why are videos of THOSE activities not being continuously screened, do you think?
“I very much doubt it”.
Being brainwashed, it makes sense that you would.
“Brian, you appear to be wrestling with some doubts”
LOL. Are you serious? WHERE does that appear?
No, I do not agree that what is on the screen influences behaviors. Au contraire. What is on screen reflects what people already do or at least want to do. Morever, even if I accepted that premise that people are influenced by media, don’t expect me to accept that a valid excuse for any behavior. Why would YOU, is the relevant question.
“There are all sorts of other things that gay men can do together to enjoy sexual pleasure together, activities which are far far safer. Why are videos of THOSE activities not being continuously screened, do you think”?
I don’t understand the question.
You have education issues, Brian. You would benefit a great deal from learning from academic psychological research. It contradicts what you find most comfortable for you to believe.
Eddy, when you actually have a point, come back ok?
Sounds to me like Brian may have been speaking as a porno “actor”! So if that’s what he is prepared to do with his life it follows he probably hasn’t a brain in his head, Eddy! No wonder he has absolutely no idea of habituation theory etc. He’d probably run screaming from the “difficulties” of Psych 101!
You failed at Psych 101 AND Common Sense 101. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that a person is not going to emulate what they see JUST because of continued exposure to it. One must determine within themselves that the behavior is acceptable in the first place. It’s called free will. Heard of it? If YOU are so impressionable, that you merely follow blindly, that only reveals something about YOUR mental stability. In my years of viewing gay porn, I’ve come across tons of “fisting” content, yet I have managed to not acquire a desire to do that. Your issue really is that you like being in denial of the fact that many people prefer sex without condoms, so you want to pretend that this desire is externally created. It makes for an easier target. I do find it interesting that vehement critics of bareback tend to use many of the same disingenuous, hyper-emotional tactics as anti-gay groups, which should be a red flag for anyone.
anti-gay: “If we accept homosexuality, everyone will become gay”
gay: “We must stop bareback porn, or else everyone will want it”
anti-gay: “NAMBLA = Homosexuality
gay: “Bareback = Disease”
Clint was my friend, and while I welcome frank and open discussion on bareback sex, this comment thread isn’t the place to do it. So please, Brian, can you take your pissing contest somewhere else and let people go back to posting about how inspirational Clint was?
hi kristen…. u were so lucky he was ur friend……..i know im writing it too late but please help me to keep clint’s dream alive. i want to do something for our Hero….. please let me know my mail [email protected]
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Jones admitted that when you’re not giving everyday playing time, it can be hard to break out of a slump. Jones saw a stretch where he went just 2-for-30 (.067) in mid-May.
“It makes it a little more difficult,” Jones said. “You work in the cage, but it’s nothing like a game. That’s something that you have to deal with as a player. You try to find your swing when you’re not playing in the cage, really work on your timing. When you get that chance to play, try and transfer it over. When you’re in there everyday, your timing is good, but when you’re not, you really got to battle and key in on that timing and be ready for that fastball.”
Jones’ hot bat is just one of several that has also heated up for the club. While the pitching has held the Bucs in the games for the majority of the season, it seems like the team has started to click on all cylinders. The starters have been solid, the bullpen has been lights out, and the bats have hit a combined .259 average, which is ranked eighth best in the National League during the month of June.
The Pirates also are starting to get noticed for their ‘surprise’ season. They entered game action on Tuesday tied for first in the National League Central and have gone 15-8 in their last 23.
“I think of a lot of guys are definitely hitting the ball better,” Jones said. “We just kept working. We kept grinding out. I just feel like a lot of guys are starting to turn that corner. I was hitting the ball better, Pedro [Alvarez'], [Neil] Walker and [Jose Tabata] Tabby, and everyone collectively as a team, we’re starting to have much better at-bats.”
The Pirates have four active players hitting over a .300 clip in June, while Alex Presley and Andrew McCutchen have hit just a few points shy of that mark. During this month, Jones has hit for a .320/.308/.600 line.
“He’s in a much better place,” Manager Clint Hurdle said of Jones. “He’s 6’4”, 235, we want him to hit like it. Stand tall at the plate. Just a little flex in his knees and get his hands out in front of him. That has been the challenge since I’ve been here to get him to do consistently. I think he’s starting to understand and reap the benefits of, I just need to do a few couple things. I don’t need to do 12 things at the plate. I need to stay tall. I need to see the ball good. I need to get my hands working in front.”
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Ovation3: Reaching For 200
Mooney’s new Ovation3 pushes the cruise-speed battle closer to 200 knots—without a turbocharger
That title has been in question for the last two years. Columbia Aircraft offered the turbocharged Columbia 400 and claimed that it was the new speed champ. Arguably, Mooney reassumed the title late last year with the new Acclaim, a 280 hp version of the Bravo with a new Continental TSIO-550G engine out front, small winglets on the tips and a number of other less significant changes.
This left the normally aspirated Ovation2 to deal with the Cirrus SR22-G3 and the Columbia 350. Certainly, one of the quickest and easiest methods of increasing the knot count was simply more horsepower.
By itself, horsepower is probably the least efficient method for improving cruise speed, but it can offer some peripheral benefits, such as better climb, shorter runway requirements and, in some cases, improved high-altitude performance. Although horsepower alone does generate more speed, the relationship is far from proportionate.
In this case, Mooney borrowed a page from Cirrus by adopting an STC’d mod rather than expending the huge amounts of money normally required to recertify an airplane. Working with Midwest Mooney of Flora, Ill., holder of the power upgrade STC, Mooney bumped power on the Ovation from 280 to 310 hp. That’s, perhaps, only fair since it’s the rating of the same Continental IO-550G engine used in both the Cirrus and Columbia applications. Mooney has effectively streamlined production by adopting the Continental 550 for all three models.
In fact, the IO-550 engine, in both normally aspirated and turbocharged trim, is rapidly finding favor with more and more aircraft manufacturers. Columbia, Cirrus, Beech and now Mooney have embraced the 550 as their standard piston powerplant.
I flew a ferry-time-only Ovation3 with Lee Uecker, Mooney’s new regional sales representative for California. His company, curiously named California Mooney, is based in Santa Maria, halfway up the West Coast, and Uecker agreed to bring the airplane down to Long Beach for a few hours of fun and editorial investigation.
Though I’m far from an expert on the Ovation, I have more than a passing acquaintance with the type. Back in the ’90s, I delivered about a dozen M20Rs overseas, logging about 600 hours in the process. One went to Durban, South Africa, one to Athens, Greece, and I delivered the other 10 (along with two Bravos and a pair of MSEs) to Graham Lowry-Jones, then Mooney distributor for Australia. Most deliveries Down Under went to Bankstown in Sydney, though a few were scattered around to Melbourne, Dubbo and Adelaide. | <urn:uuid:72b8186e-4529-4491-9c5c-d3b17fdf1dae> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.planeandpilotmag.com/aircraft/pilot-reports/mooney/ovation3-reaching-for-200.html?start=1 | 2013-05-22T08:34:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934453 | 601 |
Britain is easily the world's leader in off-shore energy, with 330 wind turbines already in operation in the country's coastal waters. Avinash Rajagopal reports on the latest in wind power technology:
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As early as 1972 the first Blythe manufactured by Kenner was released. However, after just one year she disappeared from the market but she was reborn in 2001 and successfully manufactured by Hasbro since then. Blythe stands 28 cm tall, they have huge heads and proportionally small, highly variable bodies.
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By: Dustin Walsh
January 15, 2013
NOVI, MICH. (Jan. 15, 11:30 a.m. ET) — Hours ahead of the North American International Auto Show kickoff, Chinese delegates, automotive executives and industry wonks met on Jan. 13 in Novi to discuss collaboration between the U.S. and China.
The 2013 Global Auto Experts and Executives Forum, put together by the Shanghai-based China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, introduced this year's only China company on the NAIAS show floor, Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd.
GAC is a large state-owned automaker with Chinese joint ventures with several companies, including Mitsubishi, PSA Peugeot Citreon, Fiat and Toyota.
Huang Xiangdong, chairman of GAC, came to the show to introduce the brand to developed automotive markets.
While China passed the U.S. and Japan as the world's largest automotive market, its growth is slowing, Xiangdong said.
The slowdown in sales is the catalyst in GAC's interest in exposing itself to other markets, he said.
He said while Chinese products are not currently competitive in the North American market, GAC hopes to access the U.S. research and development talent in the meantime.
Xiangdong hopes the automotive conglomerate will export products to developing markets like Latin America, Middle Asia and Eastern Europe by 2015, with intentions of overseas production thereafter.
Representatives from Delphi Automotive Corp., General Motors Co., Center for Automotive Research and Deloitte & Touche LLP were in attendance.
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A LETTER FROM LONDON: Recommended London Theatres; Books Worthy of the Morley Prize
By Ruth Leon
The monthly missive from Across the Pond offers perspective on a handful of London's essential theatrical institutions, James Hogan's Ivy and Joan, the year's most engaging theatrical books and the influential musical Salad Days.
The Best Places to See the Best Theatre in London
When American visitors ask what they should see in London, I deflect. All right, when they insist, I lie. Strangers, civilians, have no idea how hard it is to recommend theatre to those one doesn't know. My new test, when asked, is to enquire what three shows my tormentors most recently enjoyed. No point, after all, in suggesting an obscure contemporary play by the newest 12-year-old wunderkind if what they most loved in the last five years was Mamma Mia! I've had several disasters encouraging new friends to savor the joys of Sondheim when they'd really prefer Strindberg.
So there are pitfalls in being a theatre critic, not least that we see so much that our vision is necessarily skewed by the huge burden of baggage we take into the theatre with us, all the productions we've seen before this one. A Shakespeare virgin of my acquaintance recently almost danced out of the Globe, thrilled by a production which was so bland that, had she asked me in advance, I would have dissuaded her from seeing. When you've seen three Macbeths in six months, it's kind of hard to get excited about a fourth, no matter how promising the cast or director. Yet, if it's your first ever Thane of Cawdor, what riches! How I should love to see Macbeth or any of the great Shakespeare plays for the first time.
Recommending is full of pitfalls. But if it's someone I know, someone whose theatrical knowledge is sound and wide-ranging, then I always start by looking at what's on at the National Theatre. Under director Nick Hytner, the choice is always extensive and exciting. Of course there are a few duds in every season, you'd expect that, but overall, its three auditoria, all performing plays in rotating repertory, present a staggering array of first-class theatre from contemporary to classic, from comic to tragic, from experimental to traditional. The National Theatre is one of this country's less heralded national miracles. Without a fuss it goes on, from week to week and from year to year, consistently producing the best theatre to be found anywhere in the world. It's even possible to access the Travelex £12 tickets for every show in the Olivier Theatre, but it's not easy, as canny Londoners snap them up almost as soon as they go on sale.
Then, if there's nothing at the National that I think might appeal, I look at the Almeida and the Donmar. Every actor wants to work at these two small, unassuming performance spaces because, simply, they provide the opportunities to work on the most interesting plays with the best directors. This is the final season for Michael Attenborough — son of Richard, nephew of David (yes, they are an overachieving family) — and he's overseen the building of his drafty Islington theatre into a powerhouse of theatrical strength and innovation. There is not a ticket to be had at the Almeida, and it's one of the places I go without knowing anything about the play except that it's at that theatre. Book in advance — a long way in advance.
Sam Mendes, he of "American Beauty" fame, was the first artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse. Play by play, he and his team built an exemplary reputation for risk-taking and impeccable taste, choosing plays and actors such as Simon Russell Beale and Nicole Kidman, which could be shoe-horned into his awkward thrust playing area where the audience is practically part of the action and you can't put your coat next to your seat for fear that an entering or exiting actor will trip on it. Work in the Donmar has immediacy to it, whether it's a Spanish Golden Age melodrama or a Sondheim musical.
The equally brilliant Michael Grandage, whose productions of Red and Hamlet with Jude Law went on to Broadway with great success, succeeded Mendes as artistic director. Grandage's replacement is the extraordinary Josie Rourke, whose first full season this is. She started with a bang with The Recruiting Officer and hasn't put a foot wrong yet. Her first productions have included an all female production of Shakespeare's most testosterone-fueled history, Julius Caesar and Racine's Bérénice.
The main problem at the Donmar, if you're a visitor without much chance to book in advance, is that it's a small place with very few seats, all of which tend to be sold out all the time. Don't despair, a new deal was recently announced, almost too good to be true, which allows you to pick up a ticket to the Donmar's productions for a mere £10. True, you have to get yourself (or a helpful friend) to the box office by 10 AM on Monday morning but, if you do, the box office is selling 300 front-row stalls and circle, the best seats in the admittedly small house, for three weeks hence, at just £10. Given the quality of the plays and the actors performing them, this is worth your time on any Monday. It is just about possible to do this online at donmarwarehouse.com/barclaysfrontrow, but better in person.
Books To Consider
It's nearly time again for the annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography and I've been on a reading binge of the best of this year's crop of which there are surprisingly many. I haven't read them all yet but two of the best so far are Ian Kelly's "Mr. Foote's Other Leg," about Samuel Foote, largely forgotten now but in his time one of the most famous men in Georgian London, a larger than life one-legged comedy superstar, celebrity impressionist, impresario, playwright and crime writer. I walked around with this book all through the Christmas break, unable to put it down, unwilling to finish it. Ian Kelly has written what is undoubtedly one of the most entertaining books of the year, his lightness of touch disguising the depth and quality of his historical research.
Quite different but equally fascinating is Kate Bassett's biography of the brilliant but troubled Jonathan Miller. Aptly titled "In Two Minds," Miller has ever been unable to make up his mind whether he is a doctor or a theatre and opera director and he has always done both, at each juncture feeling himself in the wrong pigeonhole. One of the original Beyond the Fringe team, Miller went into showbusiness by the accident of Beyond the Fringe's Broadway success but Bassett show how this constant shifting of focus between medicine and opera has informed a life lived at the top of the intellectual community.
Ivy and Joan By James Hogan, and Julian Slade's Musical Salad Days
There's a tiny new theatre in town, well, hardly a theatre at all, really, but The Balcony at The Print Room in an unlikely part of London, Notting Hill (yes, that Notting Hill), has just opened with two plays by James Hogan. Hogan is better known as a publisher of theatre books than as a playwright but these two short plays, Ivy and Joan, are heart-breakingly poignant sketches of disappointment and make me anxious to see more of the playwright.
Lynne Miller plays both these two contrasting women with such intelligence and depth that one's heart aches for them. Ivy, a Northern barmaid with no charm and no prospects, has just been sacked after 40 years, in favor of an 18-year old who keeps the top button of her blouse undone. As she waits for the bus which will take her to a faraway town, she rambles to an irritated colleague about her life, often unwittingly funny, often spiteful, often self-righteous, always without self-awareness, until Hogan's skill and Miller's craft slowly bring this unattractive personality into focus as a woman worthy of our sympathy who has lived a lifetime without finding out who she is. The other play, Joan, is about a middle-class woman who yearns for attention from a husband unable to give it to her. Her longing for an outward manifestation of her inner world has actually driven her mad and this clear-eyed portrait of the process of madness is almost unbearably sad.
Sadness is the last emotion you could associate with the adorable production of Julian Slade's classic '50s musical Salad Days, in glorious revival at Riverside Studios. An enchanting romp through young love with the aid of a magic piano, it is performed by a little opera company, Téte â Téte, who enter into the spirit of innocence and simplicity of the original. The difference between this and other recent revivals is the quality of the singing which is superb.
As the big-screen version of Les Misérables hits these shores and wins Oscars and Golden Globes and Baftas, it's worth mentioning that, without Salad Days, there would be no Les Miz. At the age of eight, as a birthday treat, a little Scottish boy was taken to see the show. So delighted was he with a magic piano that appeared to play itself that he ran down the aisle of the theatre to see how it worked. As luck would have it, the composer Julian Slade was playing the piano in the pit that afternoon and offered to demonstrate the piano for the child and then took him on a backstage tour.
That little boy grew up to be Sir Cameron Mackintosh, perhaps the most successful producer of musicals in the history of the theatre and the man who believed in, and gave birth to, Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Mary Poppins. Oh, and Les Misérables.
(Ruth Leon is a London and New York City arts writer and critic whose work has been seen in Playbill magazine and other publications.)
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Capcom has released some new images of its upcoming action/adventure RPG, Dragon’s Dogma. The screens below are primarily of one of the most famous monsters in all of mythology, the cyclops. Despite his tremendous size, he looks to be a very agile opponent.
A fellow journalist at the Tokyo Game Show looked at me like I was nuts when I said that Dragon’s Dogma looked like some kind of combination of Monster Hunter and Shadow of the Colossus. Upon playing it, however, I can say it definitely has some overlap with both of those games. The thrill of the hunt from Monster Hunter is there, and the monster battles, while not quite on the same scale as SotC, are an amazing thing to behold. The open-world gameplay has earned it a few comparisons to Bethesda RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The game overall feels like an Elder Scrolls title with an emphasis on Monster Hunter-type searches for giant beasts that might well be pulled out of SotC. See for yourself if that’s a recipe for success when it hits stores next year. | <urn:uuid:296ca06b-5058-43d7-b16c-274441039626> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2011/10/25/see-these-dragons-dogma-screens-with-one-eye/ | 2013-05-22T08:00:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963127 | 240 |
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[PLUG] [OT/commercial/x-post] Looking for professional help to integrate LDAP auth (Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP)
knura at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 19 00:01:03 PDT 2009
On Sunday 19 Jul 2009, Manas Alekar wrote:
> > I have not tried sudo but users defined in the openLDAP Directory
> > can login into the OSX box over the network (ssh user1 at hostname).
> Try clearing DirectoryService preferences.
Done it (all preferences moved to Trash bin); the problem, as stated
before, still persists.
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The new Xperia Tablet S was showcased by Sony at the IFA 2012 and some figures have suggested that the model could debut as early as this month. Here is a roundup of the specs and features that are set to be included on the model.
Whether it’s a tablet computer, laptop, digital camcorder or printer, the new term marks the perfect time to invest in new technology. But there’s plenty of software and apps too in order to help you achieve the greatest grades.
CL Multimedia Technology and Tencent, China’s leading integrated internet service provider, have announced the joint launch of iCE SCREEN; the first large screen mobile smart cloud product in the world.
A leaked imaged yesterday purportedly shows Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire 2, possibly a 7-inch device which would back-up recent rumours. Here’s what we know so far…
Multi-touch tablets featuring Intel’s Ultrabook specifications were the order of the day at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this week, with Sony, Toshiba and Samsung amongst those debuting their own versions of the model.
If you’re considering buying a tablet computer but want to look elsewhere from the Apple iPad then find out more about the latest device to be launched, the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was unveiled months ago – but it’s back with a bigger engine and a slot for your S-Pen. So is it actually any good? Find out in our early hands-on expert review!
Details are scant, but a mystery press event in California points to the unveiling of Amazon’s next-gen Kindle Fire. We’ve got all the latest gossip on what the mystery Amazon event may include.
Due in September, the Archos 101 XS tablet will go head-to-head against Microsoft’s Surface tablet and the Asus Transformer Prime range not to mention Apple and Samsung. So will it be a success?
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How does humility fit in with swagger?”
It’s a question that caught my attention when I was browsing the Net. It’s actually the title of an article by Jim Murphy. From what I’ve read on his site Inner Excellence, he’s a sportsman who’s now authored personal development books and committed himself to inspiring people to be the best they can be.
I usually come across the word “swagger” when the subject is a popular person, usually a celebrity or someone who’s idolized. They usually have that certain charm that makes them irresistible. Admit it or not, many of us often wonder how we can have that.
In his article, Murphy said, “Don’t confuse swagger with pride. Swagger is the confidence that you can connect with the powerful energy of passion, purpose, and poise. Pride is, in our discussion, the false bravado that comes when the ego says, ‘look at me.’”
And he has a point there. The article is just a brief one, but it has some statements that can create a certain spark in your soul and spirit. Read the whole piece through this link - How does humility fit in with swagger? I’m sure it’ll help boost your confidence today. | <urn:uuid:f1848784-9687-42ff-b23d-3d89aadb7076> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pluginid.com/humility-gratitude-and-swagger-how-they-all-fit-together/ | 2013-05-22T07:54:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959877 | 285 |
The county’s proposed 2010-11 budget calls for the county-funded tourism and economic development functions at Plumas Corporation to be brought under the county’s direct supervision, with $25,000 in anticipated transition costs.
The working plan would involve taking $75,000 from the $230,000 usually allocated to Plumas Corporation and creating a request-based system where groups could make proposals for events or other efforts that might stimulate the economy.
County Administrative Officer Jack Ingstad’s budget cover letter indicated moving these functions back to the county “significantly reduces overhead and administrative costs.”
The letter explains that Ingstad would supervise these areas, with the county GIS department taking over the tourism website.
The budget committee suggested that the chambers of commerce and Plumas Arts receive one percent reductions, like many county departments, while the county supervisors’ recreation/community funds (formerly $5,000 per board member) would be eliminated completely.
In a phone interview, Ingstad said Fair Manager John Steffanic volunteered to take a large cut from $95,467 in county contributions to $23,000, while the Quincy Library Group offered to drop from $37,000 to $28,000 for its legal fund.
The budget committee recommends taking both of those offers.
Greenville loses to American Christian
Greenville’s James Martinez rounds third and gives his coach Mike Chelotti a high five after hitting a homer during the Indians’ game against American Christian...Read More...
175 mile Sierra Nevada Relay to run through Plumas County
This gorgeous view of mountains towering over a valley is one of many that runners in the upcoming Sierra Nevada Relay will encounter. The relay starts at Donner...Read More...
Fishing Report for the week of 5/16/2013
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Despite the fact that he once wrote a post in which he claimed that the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution does not explicitly afford a right to counsel (a post he long since scrubbed in embarrassment), Naugle likes to fancy himself a legal expert despite no qualifications whatsoever. Even though time after time, Matt Naugle’s foray into legal writing is just a laughable joke.
Earlier this week, Naugle even claimed there was a constitutional right to reckless driving.
Now, Naugle is asking his conservative readers to blatant violate Ohio’s election laws:
Matt Naugle should read R.C. 3517.21:
(A) No person, during the course of any campaign for nomination or election to public office or office of a political party, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the outcome of such campaign do any of the following:
(1) Serve, or place another person to serve, as an agent or employee in the election campaign organization of a candidate for the purpose of acting to impede the conduct of the candidate’s campaign for nomination or election or of reporting information to the employee’s employer or the agent’s principal without the knowledge of the candidate or the candidate’s organization.
The potentially criminal penalty for violating this code is up to six months for jail and up to $5,000 in fines per count.
But that’s just what any reader of Naugle’s tweet might face if they’re caught spying on the OFA meetings. So, Naugle’s off the hook, right? Hardly.
Under R.C. 2923.03, Naugle could be charged with complicity to infiltrate a political campaign:
(A) No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following:
(1) Solicit or procure another to commit the offense;
The criminal penalty for complicity to an offense is the same as if you were the principal offender yourself except that Naugle could be charged for every count where some conservative does this and admits that they got the idea from Naugle.
Just how many different jurisdictions does this open Matt Naugle to criminal prosecution?
Matt, if I were your lawyer (which I’m not!), I’d advise that you look to R.C. 2923.03(E) and proceed expeditiously as that subsection advises.
Either that, or get a good criminal defense attorney on retainer (and be sure to ask about their bulk rate!)
It’s not every day you see a Tweet that could land a person in jail for up to a year and a half, after all!
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The library is equipped with 16 public access computers (PCs). They are located:
- 3 research computers (A, B, and C) on the first floor in the Tech-Etch Technology Room
- 10 computers also in the Tech-Etch Technology Room
- 1 express computer on the first floor behind the reference desk in the Reference Reading Room
- 2 computers on the first floor in the Youth Services department
A library card is required for access.
With the exception of the express computer, which is not configured for printing and allows only 15 minutes of use, computer sessions are 60-minutes long, with an additional log-in time of another 30 minutes per day. If computer usage is high, the session will automatically expire after 60-minutes to permit others to log-on. You can only use your library card to log onto one computer at a time. Three log-ins a day are permitted. If all of the computers are busy, there is a sign-up station in the Tech-Etch Technology Room that will allow you to put your name on a waiting list for computers 1 through 10.
Reservations may be made ahead of time on computers A, B, and C, which permit 90-minutes of uninterrupted use. Reservations can be made by contacting the Reference Department at 508-830-4250, extension 205.
For those without library cards or who have used up their allotted time, 60-minute visitor passes are available for $1.00. Passes are available at the self service machine next to the Reference Desk. The librarians at the Reference Desk can also print passes for you. A pass is good for use any time on the day of purchase. There is no limit on the number of passes you can buy.
All of the computers have internet access. They operate using Windows 7 and are equipped with Adobe Reader and Microsoft Office 2010, including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. We subscribe to two research databases, American Ancestors and Ancestry.com Library Edition which can be accessed from the computers in the Tech-Etch Technology Room.
Headphones are available at the Reference Desk.
Our computers automatically wipe out any browsing history, passwords, forms, etc. after each session. We advise you to always save your work to a flash drive.
With the exception of the express computer, all of the public computers provide black and white printing for $.10 a page. Pre-payment is required. Money can be added to your library card account using the self service machine next to the Reference Desk. The librarians in the Children’s Room and at the reference desk can also assist you in adding money to your account.
All of the public computers use the printer located behind the reference desk in the main reading room.
There are three black and white photocopiers for public use in the library:
- in the main lobby behind the stairwell on the right (opposite the elevator)
- on the first floor in the Children’s Room (to the right of the doorway, opposite the fish tank)
- on the second floor in the History Room
Photocopies are $.10 and all of the photocopiers accept coins and dollar bills.
If a copier has run out of paper, jammed, or you need assistance, please contact the reference desk on the first floor.
Microfilm documents are stored on the first floor in the Tech-Etch Technology Room. One reader is located on the second floor in the History Room. There are three other readers in the Tech-Etch Technology Room adjacent to the public computers. Black and white printing is available for $.10 a page. If you need assistance using microforms, please ask for help at the Reference Desk.
Wireless internet service is available for free. No user name or password is required to connect wireless-enabled devices to our public network. However, if you wish to print any documents, you will have to log onto one of the public computers. There are electrical outlets under the tables in the Reference Reading Room as well as in the study carrels in the non-fiction stacks on the library’s first floor.
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Below is a list of some free sites which have been compiled by the American Library Association.
Extensive collection of hundreds of thousands of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. Arranged by broad areas, then broken down into browseable categories.
More than 7000 ads from print newspapers and magazines published from 1910 to the 1950's. Content focuses on radio, TV, transportation, beauty/hygiene, and WWII.
Access thousands of historic commercials from the 1950s-1980s.
Information Please Almanac
American Time Use Survey
Provides statistics and graphical data on the amount of time people in the U.S. spend on various activities.
Links to more than 1000 works of art in 17 museums around the world. Virtually explore a museum, view the art in high resolution. and create your own personlaized collection.
Find Mastercard , Cirrus or Maestro ATM's worldwide
Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Documnets relevant tot he fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Searchable by date, subject, author and title.
Baby Name Wizard
Find the perfect name. Create a list by length of letters in a name, letter preference, heritage and popularity. Provides etymologies, and can track names by state or year for popularity.
Bank Rate Monitor
Mortgage, college financing, insurance, debt information and more
The site provides basic, advanced and interactive tools for charting; current and historical quotes; industry and market data; news and analysis; and screening tools for stocks on major worldwide exchanges. Information is organized under tabs.
Biodiversity heritage Library
With over 32million+ digitized pages about plants and animals from publications from 1484 to the present, the site is for browsing digitzed books and journals, and scanned images are of high quality and in full color. Explore some of the world's great science libraries, museums and botanical gardens.
Easy to understand on what to buy, where to buy and how much to pay for a new or used auto or truck. Pricing and financing information. Search for specific makes, models and years.
Rates over 5000 charities. Updated frequently, groups change according to the season and events.
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Over 20,000 recipes online. The travel section lists some of the best places to eat out when traveling.
Convert any currency to another including historical information
Current Value of Old Money
Collects links "to inflation statistics, price indexes, and sources of data on changes in the value of money." Resources are divided geographically and thematically.
Full text e-books of classic works of literature, philosophy, and history from various countries. Downloadable to various e-book devices.
Profiles of cities and counties-data on airports, museums, statistics at the city and county level. Links to local media outlets, community organizations, historical weather, films shot in area and celebrity residences.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Free online encyclopedia with 7000 articles written by "scholars, professionals, educators, practioners and other experts who collaborate and review each other's work." Content is keyword searchable.
Online "vault" to thousands of declassified FBI documents spanning decades.
Forvo: words pronounced
Audio playback clips of word pronunciations in over 280 languages. Website can be viewed in several languages.
Translate words, text, website or entire documents in over 50 supported languages. If you can't identify the language, use the "detect language" feature. Quality varies by language.
Free television episodes, full length movies and video clips. Browse by genre, documentaries to popular series.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Compilation of information on plant and animal species threatened with extinction. List is updated once a year. Taxonomy, geographic range, population, habitat, ecology, threats and conservation actions are included.
nationwide directory of farmer's markets, small family farms & organic food resources. For anyone buying local and/or organic food and produce.
Long Island Railroad
Schedule, fares, maps, delays, escalator and elevator, purchasing information.
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Supports research into the world's frozen realms. Includes Sea Ice Index or learn All About Snow.
Catalog of Digital Hisotrical Newspapers. Links to over 1700 freely availabledigital hisotrical newspapers.
50,000 conversions and 5000 units. Has the popular conversions, but also contains measurements for women's clothing between countries, light years, density, torque, and fun stuff such as weight on Mars and names into Morse Code.
Seeks to create and maintain "one webpage for every book ever published." The site provides full-text access (when available) to out-of-copyright titles, including the option to send the text to a Kindle. Over 20 million records gathered so far.
Gallop Polls on all topics.
Petrucci Music Library
20,000 works from 3000 composers. Free sheet music online
Articles about poetry and poets. Poems in full text, including podcasts and audio versions of poems.
ProCon.org-Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
Site looks at both sides of 40 controversial issues in many areas. For each issue, a core question is posed along with the top ten pro and con statements regarding the issue, little known facts, historical timeline and a glossary.
Physician and Physician Assistant disciplinary and other actions.
The site contains information on how long food can be safely stored and the best way to keep it. Information from the Department of Agriculture, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bus schedules, maps, fares, and news.
International statistics on a broad range of topics
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The most comprehensive database for education statistics in the world, tracking current and historical data. Can build custom tables and reports besides predefined statistical tables, country profiles and global rankings.
Weights and measures
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- SPECIAL REPORTS
- THE MAGAZINE
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 10, 2006-Autodesk, Inc. today announced that Keith Davidson, director of operations for the Autodesk Collaboration Solutions division, will address offshoring as a panelist in the strategic planning track at the upcoming Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Software Strategy Summit. The SIIA annual summit takes place May 15 - 16, 2006 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and focuses on how the software industry is changing, including the emergence of on-demand solutions in increasingly global markets. In-depth panel sessions will address topics such as software as a service (SaaS), security, open source and offshoring.
As businesses increasingly globalize operations to realize greater cost savings and broader sales opportunities in their respective markets, offshoring and outsourcing present new challenges. On-demand collaborative project management software offered as a service provides employees an always-on, global way to collaborate and automate project lifecycle management (PLM). Autodesk Collaboration Solutions helps customers such as Wyndham Worldwide Hotels, Panera Bread, and BP America, Inc. with its on-demand collaboration solutions (Autodesk Buzzsaw and Autodesk Constructware) for effective project management and collaboration that support greater results for customers' offshore project teams.
Keith Davidson, Autodesk Presentation at SIIA:
DATE: Tuesday, May 16, 2006
TIME: 12:15pm to 1:00pm
TRACK: Strategic Planning
"The Executive Offshore Decision"
Contact: For more information or to schedule an interview with Keith Davidson, contact Kevin G. Clark at 415-547-2457 or [email protected]
About AutodeskAutodesk, Inc. is a Fortune 1000 company, wholly focused on ensuring that great ideas are turned into reality. With seven million users, Autodesk is the world's leading software and services company for the manufacturing, infrastructure, building, media and entertainment, and wireless data services fields. Autodesk's solutions help customers create, manage and share their data and digital assets more effectively. As a result, customers turn ideas into competitive advantage, become more productive, streamline project efficiency and maximize profits.
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Margaret E. VanReenan, 94, of Marlinton died May 5, 2012 at her home.
Funeral service will be Monday, May 7, at 11 a.m. at VanReenen Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Mann officiating. Burial will follow in Cochran Cemetery.
She was born June 11, 1917 at Watoga the daughter of the late Irvin Dunbrack and Lily Mae Perkey Dunbrack White.
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First up a confession: I'm a total PES devotee. I've been playing Konami's football franchise ever since it burst onto the PS2 back in 2001. I've bought and played every version since, and consider myself something of a PES connoisseur.
Before that I'd been a FIFA fan, beginning with the Mega Drive version way back in 1993. But towards the end of the 90s I grew tired of its unrealistic gameplay and its dedication to minor details rather than authenticity.
When PES came along, with its measured passing system, its variable running techniques, and its far more accurate shooting engine, I jumped ship, thinking that FIFA was dead in the water.
But over the last two or three years I have to admit that PES has let me down. It seems to have lost its way in the seventh-gen console, HD graphic-based revolution. Sure PES 2011 was a major improvement on 2009 and 2010's efforts - but it still left me wanting.
And during this time I've been constantly barraged by my FIFA playing chums, feeding me stories of a much better gameplay engine and a vastly improved AI experience. And many of these FIFA players were ex-Pro Evoers as well.
So when the reviews for FIFA 11 consistently outscored the much-improved PES 2011, I decided that I had to give it a chance. I owed the 11-year old me who opened up FIFA International Soccer (with Platty on the cover) on Christmas Day 1993 that much at least.
So I spent 7 days with the game to see if it could win me over. And this is how I got on.....
So the game fires up and Kaka is walking down the tunnel. Why he is on his own, I don't know, but I do know one thing - it looks bloomin' brilliant. But that's what FIFA is all about though isn't it? All the looks but little else?
I needed to get my game on, but first a few admin tasks to take care of. I admitted to the game that I had no FIFA 10 experience, but I did set my football sim history to "Experienced". Arrogant? Maybe, but I thought it would be okay.
I jump straight into a match, an exhibition game with the difficulty level set on semi-pro. My main concern was the differing control options from PES, but luckily there's an "Alternate" button setup that may as well read "for Pro Evo players".
Barcelona (me) vs. Blackpool (CPU). It's hardly a fair fight I know - but on semi-pro, and considering it's my first proper FIFA game for over 10 years I thought it only right. I win 2-1 with a last minute David Villa tap in, but the scoreline is generous to Blackpool. I missed five or six glorious chances. I found myself trying to score chipped goals and the like as I would on PES - clearly running before I could walk.
My first impressions are that it seems okay. Nothing too brilliant, but quick and responsive. But all a bit different.
I play four more matches that night - against better opposition and win two and draw two. I'm not hooked yet, but I'm definitely eyeing the bait.
Rather than a long and boring explanation of how I got to this point, let's just say that after a mammoth five hour session, I am now fully into the FIFA swing. I'm on professional difficulty setting now, and I won the World Cup with England - so I must be good.
I even had a few matches on World Class difficulty setting, and experienced defeat for the first time. But glorious defeat it was (think Newcastle in those 3-4 encounters with Liverpool in the 90s) not humiliating defeat (think West Ham most weekends).
The game is brilliant, there's no denying that and I am feeling almost converted already.
Remember that arrogance I spoke about earlier - well, it has come back to haunt me. I decide that after my success yesterday that I'm good enough to go online and take on the best that Xbox LIVE can throw at me. When playing PES I usually hold my own online and rarely get beaten, so I figure this should be the same.
To say that I had my arse handed to me on a plate wouldn't really do the humiliation justice. I won my first couple of games but then met five or six opponents who had clearly put in the years when it comes to online FIFA gaming - they were like the EA fan versions of my Pro Evo online persona.
The final straw is a 5-1 smashing by a German chap, whose English was plenty good enough to let me know just how bad he thought I was.
I'm sulking after yesterday, so I decide to take out some online revenge on my nephew, who has only been playing FIFA himself since Christmas.
Over five matches I shave it 3-2 and I feel much better. There's nothing like beating a 12 year kid to lift your self esteem.
My good lady is out for the evening, so it's a Friday night of Dundee United career mode for me. Living the Dream or what?
I won't bore you with the details, but let's just say that after 15 games of the season, the Old Firm have some catching up to do, and super striker Paul Lamkin is looking more like Ronaldo (fat not flash) with every game.
I control the whole team of course, not just my player - I'm far too much of a control freak to let any of my teammates steal my Virtual Pro's glory. I did mention my arrogance didn't I?
I take a day off from FIFA and I play PES 2011 instead. Well, I say play - I turn it off after 20 minutes in anger.
It just doesn't feel very slick compared to FIFA. The players feel sluggish and some of the AI defending is woeful.
I think it took spending some time with a far superior game to make me realise just how far PES has fallen. Sure, the 2011 version is much better than the awful 2009 - 2010 titles, but it's still got some serious issues that need ironing out.
Sunday is the day for watching real football, not playing a virtual representation. At least that's what I thought anyway.
According to my good lady, Sunday is also the day for shopping - and lots of it. Who knew?
It doesn't matter though, I'd played enough FIFA 11 this week to make my mind up.
It's clear that FIFA 11 is indeed a better game than PES 2011. In fact, it's a much better game than PES ever has been - even in its 2006-2008 glory days when it was easily the number one football sim franchise.
It's just so slick, so natural and so god-damn good looking - which was once my biggest criticism of the franchise. I'd accused it of being a bimbo of a game: of looking good, but with nothing substantial to keep my attention long term.
But now it has. It has the gameplay to match the looks. And that's the crucial ingredient.
It's not possible to totally dismiss Konami, however, especially having given the Japanese games company over 10 years commitment and having spent hundreds, nay thousands, of hours engrossed within its football game.
So many hours that I can feel the PES influence in FIFA. Sure, it's a better game - but it's a better game because it has built on the success that Konami built with PES.
Gone are the audacious overhead kicks from 30 yards sailing into the top corner with a simple tap of the button, or the hacking down the goal-keepers with an unrealistic waist high-lunge when he has ball-in-hand.
In their place are scrappy goals where you've held off defenders to toe-poke in after the the keeper has fumbled a cross, and cross field "Hollywood" balls that are easily snuffed out by intelligent AI defenders.
It's much more like real football, and that's why it's a winner. It's an ideology that Konami started with PES way back in 2001 when EA were more interested in getting the correct number of hoops on the Celtic shirt.
Living with FIFA 11 for 7 days has been a doddle - and I'm definitely a convert now. In fact, I know that I'll be living with the game for a much longer time (I've got my Dundee United season to finish off for a start).
But I'll always have a space for PES in my heart. You never forget your first love, even if it did treat me badly over the last few years. | <urn:uuid:80669a1a-647c-4ffb-b0ac-5349048468ad> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/109213-7-days-living-fifa-11 | 2013-05-22T08:29:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977476 | 1,814 |
Looking for our full review of the Motorla Defy? You can find it here.
Looking to appeal to those who lead a tough life is the just-announced Motorola Defy, claiming to be "life proof". Motorola were keen to point out that this isn't a rugged phone as such, just one that offers a little extra protection against day-to-day hazards, like puddles, pints and parties.
Conforming to IP67 standards - meaning complete protection against dust ingress and water immersion up to 1 metre - much of this protection comes down to design. The tough looks will appeal to some, with exposed screws on the outside making the phone look every bit as tough as its rating suggests.
But this isn't a Sonim smash-me-against-the-wall phone, as the 3.7-inch edge-to-edge capacitive touchscreen display on the front shows. Although it may be finished in Gorilla Glass, too much rough and tumble will see the screen taking the damage.
To protect the ports you'll find rubber plugs that fit over the Micro-USB and 3.5mm headphone jack. These may be a little fiddly if you spend a lot of time opening and closing to attach headphones, for example, but at least it will stop pocket-lint ingression into every opening of the device.
On one of the devices we found that it no longer accepted the rubber plug, which kept coming out and we've seen this on tough devices in the past. This might be down to the sample we saw being a pre-production sample and having passed through the hands of many admiring execs and journos, but it's something to consider if you're thinking of getting the Defy as your daily work phone in a dirty environment.
The finish is in tough plastics and we've seen two different colour schemes, in black and white. It looks attractive enough, although it perhaps won't get as many admiring glances as your average high-end handset. It also is reasonably compact despite its level of protection, measuring 59 x 107 x 13.4mm. It feels solid in the hand too, with the curved edges making it comfortable to hold.
Around the body of the handset you have typical controls, a power/standby button, volume controls, but no dedicated button for the 5-megapixel camera on the back. There is an LED flash, if you find such things useful for your mobile snapping, but you could always use it as an emergency torch should you take the Defy camping.
We took a look at the camera interface, but weren't able to test it during our hands-on session with the Defy. We did note that it only supports 640 x 480 resolution video capture, putting it behind the top phones which offer HD video.
Across the bottom of the screen are typical and familiar controls for Motorola fans, offering menu, home, back and search. These buttons are touch sensitive and provide easy navigation around the device.
Sitting at the core you'll find an 800MHz processor with 2GB of memory, although you'll be able to expand on this with a microSD card. These specs put the Defy in the mid-range, even if the 3.7-inch screen is generous; it isn't the brightest we've seen, but seemed vibrant enough at first glance.
Running Android 2.1, you also don't get all the bells and whistles that the Milestone 2 - launched at the same time - gets. You'll miss out on proper Flash video integration, for example. What you do get, though, is Motoblur
Motoblur integrates your social networks to keep you connected and bring all these happenings into your phone. This gives you a rich interactive experience, with contacts collating their relevant updates and so on. Add this to Android's existing uber-connectivity and you'll always be in the picture.
Elsewhere you get all the hardware connectivity you'd expect, including HSDPA, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR. It also supports DLNA, so you'll be able to easily share your captured content with compatible devices when you return from your wild adventures. You can also turn your phone into a mobile hotspot, with Motorola boasting about how good the aerials are in its devices.
The home screen presents you with customisable displays (up to 7) and you'll be able to configure these with the usual shortcuts and widgets, including Motorola's Motoblur widgets. Swiping from side-to-side was slick with no sign of lag on the device that we saw.
You also get a proximity sensor, light sensor and accelerometer, in addition to the GPS, giving you Google Maps Navigation for free, so you'll never get lost on your intrepid adventures.
We found the keyboard to be nice and responsive when we bashed out a few test messages and the phone comes preloaded with Swype for those who prefer not to get into a tapping frenzy.
Our first impressions of the Motorola Defy are good. It may be a little chunkier than some of its rivals, like the HTC Legend, and it doesn't have the headline specs of the Milestone 2, the HTC Desire or the Samsung Galaxy S, but it's a fun looking and feeling phone, that won't care if it has the odd pint spilt on it.
In our brief time using the phone it seemed fast enough to respond when navigating the operating system and the on-screen keyboard was nice and fast for entering text.
We'll have to see if it really does stand up to a little abuse, and how things like the battery and camera perform when we take a long hard look at the Defy in a full review.
For oodles more photos, check out our Motorola Defy photo gallery. | <urn:uuid:c455bbf5-6255-4ea0-8e56-6c9314f32177> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/71987-motorola-defy-first-look-preview | 2013-05-22T08:21:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951886 | 1,205 |
Can An Emerging Synthetic Graft Have An Impact In Soft Tissue Repair?
- Volume 26 - Issue 3 - March 2013
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• Achilles tendon repair
• Plantar plate repair
• Modified Brostrom lateral ankle reconstruction
• Painful os peroneum excision
• Peroneal tendon reconstruction
• Tibialis posterior tendon reconstruction
• Extensor hallucis longus repair
• Spring ligament repair/augmentation
Contraindications include patients with active or latent infection, decreased vascularity or pathologic soft tissue disorders that would prevent secure attachment. It is also not advised to use the product in patients for whom rolling, layering or folding of the graft is required as it may lead to impermeability of fluid, cells and vascular ingrowth. This could potentially lead to excessive inflammation, drainage, extrusion and infection.
Potential complications of the implant include infection, acute or chronic inflammation, tissue erosion and graft extrusion.
The implant comes in patch form and is easy to handle and shape to the application once it is rehydrated in normal sterile saline solution. It is packaged sterile with a minimum dose 25 kGy electron beam radiation. The shelf life is five years. One can store the product at room temperature and normal relative humidity is advised. Prior to using the implant, one should submerge it into sterile saline at room temperature for at least five minutes. The senior author frequently hydrates the implant in platelet rich plasma as a substitute to the normal sterile saline solution for an equivalent timeframe.
Case Studies In The Use Of Artelon
A 57-year-old female presented eight weeks after dropping large scissors on her foot. She had a laceration and flexion contracture of the first metatarsophalangeal joint (MPJ) and hallux. The patient reported loss of push-off strength in normal gait. Surgeons retrieved the extensor hallucis longus tendon both proximally and distally with the proximal portion split longitudinally to span the defect. Surgeons then augmented repair with an Artelon strip, which was anchored at each end with non-absorbable suture and along its course with Vicryl (see photo at left). The patient went on to bear weight at four weeks and reported gradual increases in first MPJ dorsiflexory power after eight weeks during physical therapy.
A 62-year-old squash player presented 10 weeks after injuring his Achilles tendon. Surgeons secured the Artelon patch proximally and distally with non-absorbable sutures while securing the graft to itself in a tubular fashion with Vicryl sutures, ensuring minimal to no overlap (see photo at right). The patient returned to full weightbearing at three to four weeks postoperatively and started full physical therapy by week six. After 12 weeks, the patient returned to reduced activity squash and by six months was competing again.
The question remains as to whether graft augmentation precludes re-rupture. Key factors surrounding this issue include patient education, adequate physical rehabilitation, home exercise programs, a gradual return to activity, patient awareness of the injury severity, the postoperative course, and seeking early intervention if the patient recognizes any problems in the healing course. | <urn:uuid:337bfa81-7eea-4147-860a-ff9a39058dde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.podiatrytoday.com/can-emerging-synthetic-graft-have-impact-soft-tissue-repair?page=1 | 2013-05-22T08:32:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701508530/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105148-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924422 | 676 |
Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956 / Kilburn, London)
The Four Friends
Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow,
Leonard was a lion with a six foot tail,
George was a goat, and his beard was yellow,
And James was a very small snail.
Leonard had a stall, and a great big strong one,
Earnest had a manger, and its walls were thick,
George found a pen, but I think it was the wrong one,
And James sat down on a brick
Earnest started trumpeting, and cracked his manger,
Leonard started roaring, and shivered his stall,
James gave a huffle of a snail in danger
And nobody heard him at all.
Earnest started trumpeting and raised such a rumpus,
Leonard started roaring and trying to kick,
James went on a journey with the goats new compass
And he reached the end of his brick.
Ernest was an elephant and very well intentioned,
Leonard was a lion with a brave new tail,
George was a goat, as I think I have mentioned,
but James was only a snail.
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